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Book SynopsisHelping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations.
It is clear that many doctoral candidates find research writing complicated and difficult, but the advice they receive often glosses over the complexities of writing and/or locates the problem in the writer. Kamler and Thomson provide a highly effective framework for scholarly work that is located in personal, institutional and cultural contexts.
The pedagogical approach developed in the book is based on the notion of writing as a social practice. This approach allows supervisors to think of doctoral writers as novices who need to learn new ways with words as they enter the discursive practices of scholarly communities. This involves learning sophisticated writing practices wi
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"The book is very readable and engagingly written. The use of quotations from doctoral students and supervisors make the book lively and the inclusion of figures and highlighted text effectively prevents monotonous presentation. Supported by ten pages of rich and state-of-the art studies on the topic, this book is not only a firm platform but also a reliable springboard for supervision." - Franklin Obeng-Odoom, an early career supervisor, is the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of the Built Environment, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Putting doctoral writing center stage
Chapter 2. Writing the doctorate, writing the scholar
Chapter 3. Persuading an octopus into a jar
Chapter 4. Getting on top of the research literatures
Chapter 5. Reconsidering the personal
Chapter 6. A linguistic toolkit for supervisors
Chapter 7. Structuring the dissertation argument
Chapter 8. Publishing out of the thesis
Chapter 9 Institutionalizing doctoral writing practices
