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Re: OT:dissertation vs. book



Lisa wrote:

> This is veering off-topic, but I didn't realize that failure to publish a
> commercial version of a dissertation means the end of an academic career.
> Is this a new development in academia?

Sounds like nonsense to me. Academic careers succeed or fail by a lot of different criteria, the
dissertation and its fate being only one among many. No one except the doctoral committee is ever
likely to read the damn thing anyway, even if it appears as book.

In my experience, much more important toward the success of an academic career are: publishing
articles in well-reputed journals, getting superior evaluations from students, brown-nosing, being
in the right place at the right time, and sheer dumb luck.

FWIW,

Eric (a thankful and voluntary ex-academic)

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