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Self-Paced Dissertation-to-Book Boot Camp
Welcome! And The Nuts and Bolts of Teachable
Welcome! About Me and How this Boot Camp Came to Be
How to Use This Platform (Teachable)
How to Use The Curriculum (Teachable) and the Workbook Together
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Introductory Module: Conceptualizing the Curriculum
A Broad Overview of the Work You'll Do
How Your Phase I (Boot Camp) Work Differs from Writing a Book Proposal
Key Phase I Terms and Concepts
Objective 1.1--Your Book, on Its Own Terms
Module 1 Intro & Overview (1:47)
Objective 1.1: Your Book, An Overview
Step 1: Understanding Your Book as a Book
Step 2: Identifying Your Book's Framing
Understanding the Alignment Between Scope, Claims, and Evidence
Step 3: Assessing the Alignment Between Your Book's Scope, Claims, and Evidence
Troubleshooting Misaligned Claims, Scope, and Evidence: Understanding the Options
Step 4: Deciding on How to Realign Mismatched Claims and Scope
Step 5: Freewriting to Assess Your Book as a Book
Objective 1.1 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 1.2: Assessing Your Book's Scope, Claims, and Structure
Objective 1.2: Reviewing and Aligning Claims, Scope, and Structure
Learning About Organizing Principles
Step 1: Identifying Your Book's Current Primary Organizing Principle
Step 2: Identifying All of Your Book's Potential Organizing Principles
Step 3: Identifying the Question Each Organizing Principle Implies
Step 4: Evaluating Your Book, Then Choosing Your Organizing Principle
Step 5: Reflecting on and Committing to Your Primary Organizing Principle
Objective 1.2 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 2.1--Clarifying Your Book's Main Ideas
Module 2 Intro & Overview (0:45)
Objective 2.1: Drafting Your Book Learning Objectives
An Introduction to BLOs
Step 1: Identifying and Defining Key Book-Level Concepts
Step 2: Identifying Important Concepts and Pinpointing Relationships and Ranges
Step 3, Exercise A: Brainstorm the Main Groups of Potential Actors in Your Book
Step 3, Exercise B: Identify Your Book's 1-2 Main Actors
Step 3, Exercise C: Identify Actions and Relationships for All Secondary Actors
Learning about BLOs
Step 4: Drafting and Lightly Revising Your BLOs
Step 5: BLO Checklist
Objective 2.1 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 2.2--Revising Your BLOs
Objective 2.2: Revising Your BLOs--Content, Clarity, and Concision
Step 1, Exercise A: Play with Definitions
Step 1, Exercise B: Brainstorm Relationships
Step 1, Exercise C: Expand and Condense Your BLOs
Step 2: Actors/Actions and Directionality
Step 3: Shapes of Sentences
Step 4: Revision for Clarity and Precision
Step 5: BLO Checklist
Step 6: Reflection
Step 7: Optional Partner Review
Objective 2.2 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 3.1 Laying out How Your Chapters Serve Your Book
Module 3 Intro & Overview (3:55)
Objective 3.1: Evaluating Your Chapters
Step 1: Understanding Your Chapters on Their Own Terms
Step 2: Assessing Your Chapters in Your Book
Step 3: Reflecting on What You Learned and Revising (if Necessary)
Objective 3.1 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 3.2: Assessing Your Book Through the Lens of Parallelism
Objective 3.2: Identifying Constants and Variables and Evaluating Parallelism
Step 1: Producing Chapter-Level Snapshots
Learning How to Identify Constants and Variables
Testing Your Understanding of Parallelism with "PuertoRicAmerica"
Katelyn's Observations About and Recommendations for "PuertoRicAmerica"
A Final Note about "PuertoRicAmerica"
Step 2: Identifying Constants and Variables in Your Own Book
Step 3: Reflecting on What You Learned and Planning any Major Changes
Step 4: Considering Chapter Order and Impact
Step 5: Laying Out Connections and Shifts Between Chapters
Objective 3.2 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 4.1--Aligning Your Chapters with Your Book
Module 4 Intro & Overview
Objective 4.1: Articulating Your Chapter Learning Objectives
Step 1: Articulating Key Chapter-Level Concepts
Step 2: Producing ONE Core Body Chapter's CLOs
Step 3: CLO Checklist
Step 4: Noticing Exercise
Sample CLOs: Noticing and Revising Sample BLOs and CLOs
Step 5, Exercise A: Answer the Question
Step 5, Exercise B: Expand and Condense Your CLOs
Objective 4.1 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 4.2--Continuing to Align Your Chapters With Your Book
Objective 4.2: Producing and Revising the Rest of Your CLOs
Step 1: Producing the Rest of Your CLOs and First Revising Pass (Chapter by Chapter)
Learn What to Notice Between BLOs and CLOs
Your Turn to Practice Noting
What Katelyn and Allison Notice in the Sample CLOs
Step 2, Exercise A: Noticing Key Terms
Step 2, Exercise B: Noticing Terms' Level
Step 2, Exercise C: Noticing Parallelism in Ranges or Trajectories
Step 2, Exercise D: Noticing Parallelism in Actors (and Actions)
Step 2, Exercise F: Brainstorming Questions
Step 2, Exercise E: Noticing Directionality
Step 2, Exercise G: Reading Aloud
Step 3: Optional Partner Review of Your CLOs
Objective 4.2 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 5.1: Capturing Decisions and Distilling Your Book's Narrative
Module 5 Intro & Overview
Objective 5.1: Tying up Loose Ends
Step 1: Reviewing and Reflecting on Decisions Made Along the Way
Step 2: Revisiting, Revising, and Extending Objective 1.1
Step 3: Revisiting Objective 3.2 Steps 4 and 5
Step 4: Revisiting Objective 3.1
Step 5: Capturing Non-BLO Threads
Objective 5.1 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Objective 5.2: Producing Your Book Narrative
Objective 5.2: Putting it All Together
Producing Your Book Narrative
Objective 5.2 Review & Reflect (and Submission Link)
Boot Camp Phase I Evaluation
Conclusions and Common Questions at the End of Phase I
Final Words
FAQ as You Transition from Phase I to Phase II
Phase II: The Tour Guide Model
Key Phase II Terms and Concepts
The Tour Guide Model: Introduction
Characteristics of Excellent (Intellectual) Tour Guides
Applying the Tour Guide Model: The Big Picture & Step-by-Step
Ways In and Ways Forward; Chapter Introductions and Conclusions
Boot Camp Supplemental Activities
Putting Terms to Book-Level Scope
Identifying and Assessing at Least 2 Model Books
Your Turn to Practice Noting
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