The written thesis draws on a number of textual typologies to create a new discursive constellation around the original Make Ready book and the other publications which form the research data of the thesis. Alongside the conventions of bodytext, footnotes, and appendices the writing shifts in register through appropriate modalities which I am collectively framing through my borrowing of Genette’s Paratextual typologies. As part of Genette’s Transtextual construct, Paratext includes footnotes, marginalia, forewords, subtitles, intertitles, illustrations, epigraphs, bookcovers and many other ‘secondary signals’; in essence a greatly expanded list of elements that configure to make or ‘bind’ a text (Genette, 1997: 3). Adopting this categorisation allows me to produce a thesis which recognises conventions, while the paratextual material serves to retain and reflect the essential polyvocal, multivalent and ‘give-and-take’ discursive characteristics of each output. I offer this both as instantiation, and as proposition for other Thesis by Prior Publication which are built around practices with similar complexity.