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I often meet post PhD people who are stuck. Even though they are now doctored, they are not over the Big Book. Some of them are stuck in thinking how they might get something, anything, out of the thesis. A few of these people have just finished and are not sure where and how to start. Others are a way away from the post-viva celebration. They might have already had one or two shots at writing an article. Now one big reason for feeling stuck on getting articles out of the thesis is because people are still actually stuck in the thesis. It takes a long time to put a thesis text together. The writer has to juggle with multiple ideas and themes and findings and not only wrestle them into a logical order, but also create an argument. There is an overall thesis argument, and there is a mini argument made in each chapter. The text itself has to flow and feel coherent, and accordingly the writer spends time attending to the ways in which the reader can be smoothly guided through all of the twists and turns. At the end of all this, both the reader — and the writer — are presented with a complex and unified argument and book. It can seem very hard to undo the text which took so long and so much effort to put together. So when the time comes to write, many people begin by isolating a single article to do first of all. Well you have to start somewhere, right? The worst-case scenario is that they try to write the one article which sums up the entire thesis. Now this really is likely to go nowhere. Even when people find they can identify one article, which is only a part of the thesis, to write it still seems as if the entire thesis creeps back in. It all has to be covered, or at least a substantial part of it. The problem here is one of letting go of that entire Big Book that took so long to write, letting go of all those complexities and side issues and all that literature and methodological sophistication. One strategy therefore is not to think about writing one article with all of its attendant problems of letting go and undoing. Rather, plan right at the start all of the possible articles that could be written. Did I combine theories in a new or unusual way? What was the close runner up? You could look at three kinds of sorting — those articles that you most want to write, those that people most need to read and those where you already know a journal that would be interested. These lists might of course be the same. Then talk through your big list and the sorted lists with a trusted colleague or mentor to decide on a real short list. One of the things to consider here is whether you need to publish something in particular first, in order to build on it for the second and third articles. Well no. But having a list is a big step forward. You now have a publishing agenda. This makes a lot of sense! I think another good thing for supervisors to do is to encourage students to think about how they are going to publish work right through the PhD process. This really helps motivation, because there is nothing worse than sitting in your research silo and not thinking about the meaning of your work to a wider audience. After all, this is part of learning to become a researcher. In many ways this is why the European system makes sense although I dislike it for other reasons! Like Like. I have been feeling stuck as I published a few things during and felt I had published all the main things but looking at that list there is potential to draw out more ideas for articles and ideas to help me get started on new paths. Oh, this is quite sensible, thank you. Everyone needs to listen to Pat here, brilliant advice. In the humanities, I see many people who get distracted with little article projects and spin offs and never get their book done, or get it done much later than they need to. Your book is your priority! Thanks for the post Pat! Thankfully my supervisors encourage a publishing agenda within the phd process. It did take a considerable amount of time to write the paper and review it twice to address the reviewers comments, but it is now published end of 3rd year! Like other PhD graduates described in this article, I, too, am trying to publish my thesis work. Trying to compress and reduce the complexity of an entire thesis and repackage it into a sufficiently rich stand-alone article is challenging. Definitely worth a read. I had interest in my thesis from a book publisher but found it excruciating to change it in the way their readers suggested. Eventually I realised I had to reexamine my motivations for revising — to revise, not because I had to, but because I could see how it could be improved to communicate what I had to say better. Once I did that, I became unstuck. Thanks for this piece on this common stumbling block! Pingback: writing from the PhD thesis — the publishing plan patter. Prof Susan, for many people The Book is not the aim. I understand that it may be in your world, but in many disciplines, especially the sciences, engineering and to some extent social sciences at least in Australia , many academics may never write a whole book. What budding academics in these fields need to do is to publish as many articles as they can. Publishing articles out of your PhD can be difficult, for reasons that Pat discusses, but it is what PhD students and early career researchers need to focus on to get and maintain that first permanent position. Reblogged this on Phambichha's Blog and commented: advices on getting somethings from thesis. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Email Address:. RSS - Posts. Skip to content. Home about me my research my books contributions and comments. So two steps to letting go. Like this: Like Loading This entry was posted in academic writing , argument , Big Book , Dr , publication plan , publishing and tagged Pat Thomson , post PhD , publication planning , publishing , writing from the PhD. Bookmark the permalink. September 3, at am. I agree. Want to write a guest post about your experience of doing this? Faizah says:. Thanks for this Pat.. Kat says:. September 4, at pm. September 3, at pm. Susan says:. Chi Yan Lam says:. September 5, at am. Georgina Green says:. 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