Next week, your task will be to work through Chapters 1–2 of the workbook. In them, we take a broad, "big picture" approach to your book, ensuring that your scope, claims, and evidence are aligned (and/or making plans to better align them) and articulating what we call your book's organizing principle--the fundamental logic that animates your chapters as units in your book.

One thing to keep in mind is that, as we'll emphasize this week, your book's structure is a key part of its argument--certain organizing principles support some claims better than others. To understand better what we mean by this, you can watch this 1m video:

For instance, an author-centric organizing principle supports a claim about how various authors develop notions of family; a trope-centric organizing principle supports a claim about the various tropes authors use to theorize "the family"; and a region-centric organizing principle supports claims about what notions of family emerge in different regions. Here’s another 1m video where we walk you through some concrete examples:

Assessing the alignment between your book's organizing principle and its claims will make your Week 2 work, where you'll be articulating what we call your "book questions," more straightforward.