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The Top Ten Struggles in Writing A Book Manuscript (and What to Do About It)

The Academic Life

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Chapters Don't Have Self Contained Arguments or Purposes

Each chapter is kind of a logical unit on its own. And so you often wanted to have its own purpose ideally its own argument to make you know something original you are bringing to your topic. So that is often something that is not immediately apparent after you've written your first draft but then as you're revising going through your second or later draft think about well why is this chapter here what do I want to read or to really understand?

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