Final Draft of Dissertation Manuscript
A while back I stumbled across the CommentPress theme for WordPress that in essence allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. I’ve been wanting to try this out and finally got around with my dissertation manuscript to doing so.
Therefore, after making the final revisions to my dissertation manuscript, I posted the entire manuscript in an installation of WordPress at http://www.jasonrhode.com/publications/dissertation. There readers can not only view the entire manuscript in text format but also download and printable version in either .DOC or .PDF formats.
For the figures and tables, I simply took screen captures and uploaded to Flickr and then embedded and linked to them. When viewing the online manuscript, clicking on any of the thumbnail images will bring up a full size image hosted on Flickr.
To be completely honest, this was more of an experiment than anything else to get a feel for the CommentPress theme and the capabilities. Yet, as I’d like to have a permanent digital home for my dissertation outside of UMI that others can access, this approach is a great solution.
Anyone else using CommentPress already? If so, are you using it for collaborative authorship efforts or for more editing-type activities? Or perhaps, something else?
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