Jennifer Hill 10/30/26 Jennifer Hill 10/30/26

Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book: What Changed in Mine

One dissertation became two conference papers, a book chapter, a journal article, and a book, over fifteen years. Here is what changed at each stage, at the level of readers, structure, and the job the writing had to do, and a ten-minute retitling exercise for your own work.

Jennifer Hill 10/27/26 Jennifer Hill 10/27/26

How I Help Clients Pass Their Defense: An Editor’s Pre-Defense Checklist

Your committee has read hundreds of dissertations, but you have lived inside yours. Here is the pre-defense checklist I walk through with every client, including the quiet details advisors tend to miss, so you can walk into your defense prepared rather than braced.

Jennifer Hill 10/15/26 Jennifer Hill 10/15/26

Your Dissertation Is a Treasure Chest: Ten Things It Can Become

A finished dissertation is not a draft of one book. It is a chest of things you can make from it: articles, a monograph, a course, a talk, a practitioner tool, and more. Here are ten, what in the dissertation feeds each one, and a ten-minute exercise for choosing the first.

Jennifer Hill 10/12/26 Jennifer Hill 10/12/26

I Can Hear Your Voice: That’s How I Spot Borrowed and AI Writing

Every writer has a voice, even in academic writing, and by the end of your first chapter I can hear yours. That ear is how I protect your voice, and it is how I notice when a passage drifts into someone else’s, or into AI’s. Not an accusation: a query, and a 15-minute exercise.

Jennifer Hill 10/9/26 Jennifer Hill 10/9/26

What to Do With Your Dissertation After You Defend

You defended, you celebrated, and now what? Here is what to do with a finished dissertation: why you re-create it rather than revise it, what it can become, and a ten-minute exercise for finding your first publication.

Jennifer Hill 10/5/26 Jennifer Hill 10/5/26

APA 7 Tables and Figures: What You Can Fix in Word, and What You Have to Fix at the Source

Most table and figure corrections have nothing to do with your data. They are a bold title where an italic one belongs, a vertical line APA 7 does not use, and an image that has floated away from its caption. Here is the whole list I work through every week, in the order I work through it — including the one part of a figure that Word cannot fix at all.