Can I read Helping Doctoral Students Write : Pedagogies for Supervision on EtoBox?

Helping Doctoral Students Write : Pedagogies for Supervision by Barbara Kamler; Pat Thomson is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Helping Doctoral Students Write : Pedagogies for Supervision about?

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 co

Author

Barbara Kamler; Pat Thomson

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317802136

Subjects

Education, Literary Fiction