While technical writing has usually a pattern, how writing a book chapter is different from writing a paper? Where should emphasis, what not focused? Any suggestions?
Journal and conference articles are based on the research work done by the authors. Book chapter is based on research works done by several author groups and summarizes a particular topic. Book chapter is analogous to a review paper to some extent. The critical discussion on literature is shallow to that of a review article. Currently, conference proceedings is also published as books (For example: Lecture notes series by Springer publishers) where each conference article is labelled as a chapter. In the true sense, a conference article is not equivalent of a book chapter.
Audiences are different. While in a conference you might know something of your public, in the book chapter you don't. You don't know who will read outside your field, while a conference is designed thinking in a specific field
You write name of either of the chapter and the title of the chapter,then you write: In Andrew H. Watson,ed. then write the name of the another of editor of the book. I hope you got the idea. Thanks
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