Lifting Them Up

Black History Month Book Spotlight For the month of February, we want to showcase this amazing book that has been worked on for many years. We are proud to have been a part of Dr. Angela Cherry’s publication, and for the incredible journey along the way. “Lifting Them Up: Teaching the Hidden Curriculum to Help […]

Happiness, Health, and Vitality

Happiness in the Form of Literature What’s a better way to finish out the week than with happiness? Check out this book we’re proud to have helped publish on Amazon: “I Want to Be Happy: A 21-Day Guide to Happiness, Health, and Vitality” by Lamees Khorshid. https://a.co/d/fOsNgNJ This book includes both a Kindle and paperback version […]

Writing Your Literature Review

How To build a Literature Review: The Bones, Meat, and Potatoes Bones Unlike the Methodology and Results chapters of your dissertation, there is no defined outline for the Literature Review. It’s simply a matter of three main headings: Introduction; Main body; Conclusion. The meat is what counts, and we’re here to walk you through it. If […]

NaNoWriMo and Academic Writing

NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, started in 1999 as a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days in November. Over the years, it has developed into a nonprofit organization and website that also hosts a Camp NaNoWriMo in April and July, and other programs as well. Here’s a tip, though: even […]

Happy Halloween

Nothing Scarier: Defending Your Dissertation It might be Halloween, but at Dissertation Editor we know there’s (perhaps) nothing scarier than defending your dissertation. And there’s no one more experienced and prepared to help you get through it than the folks at Dissertation Editor. Everyone who works here has defended and passed their dissertation defense (or maybe […]

National Hispanic Heritage Month: Key Facts from the Pew Research Center

Four Facts From the Pew Research Center on U.S. Latinx Communities It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month, 2021! Between September 15th and October 15th, the team here at Dissertation Editor is participating in celebrating the Resilience and Hope of our Latinx and Hispanic communities with weekly blog posts. You can check them all out here. This week, we’re showcasing a […]

Editor

Dr. Miriam Ayres has a PhD in languages and literature from Yale University. She is a multilingual former Fulbright scholar and NYU faculty member with over 25 years of experience in higher education as a teacher and academic advisor. Her publications include articles for the Arts & Culture section of The New York Times and Granta. As an editor and copy editor, she has worked on book manuscripts published by Yale UP, Brill, and Cambridge UP. She has also edited scholarly books, articles, and dissertations by writers and researchers from the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Areas of expertise include health sciences, social sciences, humanities, and global subjects.

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