This hands-on session explores strategies for expanding seminar papers, theses, or published articles into dissertation chapters—or condensing dissertation research into publishable articles. We will also discuss how to approach publishing concurrently with dissertation writing and the inherent differences in audience, purpose, and scope for the different genres. The goal is to help graduate students at the start of their writing process plan potential dissertation structures based on previous work, while also supporting graduate students later in their careers with the skills to use the dissertation process as preparation for publication..