Timeline for Is it worth it to write a book with my advisor instead of focusing on journal/conference publications?
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| Apr 11, 2016 at 3:01 | comment | added | The Guy | I agree with you! I should have added that to my answer but didn't feel the need to be very detailed. I will make sure to be more specific with my next answers/questions. Thanks for pointing this out! | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 2:57 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | The fact that you are coauthoring a book with your advisor is extremely relevant information that would lend credibility to your answer if you would include it, along with enough information about it to indicate whether the circumstances may apply to the OP. I would also ask you to keep in mind that your own productivity as a graduate student is quite extraordinary. While that is wonderful for you, it is really not feasible for most students (and perhaps for no students in certain academic fields). | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 2:45 | comment | added | The Guy | I'm currently co-authoring a book with my advisor as I'm finalizing my thesis and I have wrote two book chapters earlier, one of them is published. To be honest, I didn't think you wanted an answer to your question. I thought it was more of a sarcastic question. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 2:25 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | "Doing both, although impractical to you, can be achievable in multiple scenarios/ conditions." I didn't mean to imply that I was only giving my own personal experience. There is a lot of advice given on writing books at an early career stage; some of it is given generally and some of it has been given to me personally. It is widely observed that writing a book is incredibly more time-consuming than one might think. You didn't answer my question of whether you wrote a book. When you tell someone "you will need to do" something, whether you yourself have done it seems relevant. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 1:45 | comment | added | The Guy | The OP did not specify a time frame! We do not know if the book has to be written from scratch? How long is the book? When it has to be finalized? From where I stand, in order for him to continue evolving, he needs papers. Doing both, although impractical to you, can be achievable in multiple scenarios/ conditions. Putting papers aside seems harsh! Putting aside an opportunity to publish a book is equally harsh! To me of course. This forum is about sharing ideas and opinions. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | Have you written an academic book? I haven't, but I have several book-length manuscripts, one of which received a "letter of interest" from one of the standard academic publishing companies. I decided not to try to pursue publication because -- even after the time I had already spent on it -- the amount of work necessary to get it in publishable form seemed prohibitively high. Most faculty members take a full year sabbatical in order to even make significant progress on writing a book. "So, you will need to do both!" seems likely to be very impractical. | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 16:23 | history | edited | The Guy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2016 at 12:24 | history | answered | The Guy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |