Writing is an inextricable part of an academic’s career; maintaining lab reports, writing personal statements, drafting cover letters, research proposals, the dissertation—this list goes on. However, while these are considered as essentials during any research program, writing an academic book is a milestone every writer aims to achieve. It could either be your urge of authoring a book or you may have received an invite from a publisher to write a book chapter. In both cases, most researchers find it difficult to write an academic book chapter.
The questions that may arise when you plan on writing a book chapter are:
- Where do I start from?
- How do I even do this?
- What should be the length of book chapters?
- How should I link one chapter to the following chapter?
These questions are quite common when starting with your first book chapter. In this article, we’ll discuss the steps on how to write an excellent academic book chapter.
