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Helping Doctoral Students Write

Kamler, Barbara, Thomson, Pat·2014·Routledge eBooks
DOI 10.4324/9781315813639
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Helping 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 with specific sets of conventions and textual characteristics. The authors offer supervisors practical advice on helping with commonly encountered writing tasks such as the proposal, the journal abstract, the literature review and constructing the dissertation argument. The first edition of this book has helped many academics and thousands of research students produce better written material. Now fully updated the second edition includes: Examples from a broader range of academic disciplines A new chapter on writing from the th…

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Authors
Kamler, B., & Thomson, P.
Affiliations
University of Nottingham (GB)
ORCID
Thomson, Pat
Venue
Routledge eBooks
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2014-03-21
DOI
10.4324/9781315813639
OpenAlex
W4234467415
Cited by
161
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11.48
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book
Language
en
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closed
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Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
  • Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Writing and Publishing
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Keywords
doctoral writing, thesis writing, doctoral supervision, writing as social practice, academic identity, writing as research, academic community, academic writing style, literature review writing, research proposal writing, abstract writing, note-taking, academic conferences, social media in academia

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