The doctoral writing conversation: establishing a generic doctoral writing programme

The Dissertation House Model: Doctoral Student Experiences Coping and Writing in a Shared Knowledge Community

The problem of PhD attrition, especially at the dissertation-writing stage, is not solely related to mentoring, departments, or disciplines; it is a problem that affects the entire institution. As such, solutions require collaborative efforts for student success. Building on Yeatman's master-apprentice model, which assumes mastering disciplinary writing in singular advisor-student contexts, and...

Lingual Engineering Education Writing Development: a Writing Programme Perspective

The Centre for Language and Communication at Chalmers University of Technology is enabled by the university’s curriculum structure to arrange productive collaborations that promote student development in language and learning throughout threeand five-year programmes, including successful completion of BSc theses. This profile describes two such in-depth collaborations, in mechanical and civil e...

Writes of passage: writing up qualitative data as a threshold concept in doctoral research

Effective writing is an essential skill for all doctoral students, yet it is one that receives relatively little attention in training and supervision. This article explores extensive feedback from participants in a series of workshops for doctoral candidates engaged with writing up qualitative data. The themes arising from the data analysis are discussed in terms of the affective domain of wri...

A Model for Doctoral Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Written Feedback for Academic Writing

The purpose of this study is to investigate social science doctoral students’ perceptions and attitudes toward written feedback about their academic writing and towards those who provide it. The study culminates in an explanatory model to describe the relationships between students’ perceptions and attitudes, their revision decisions, and other relevant factors in their written feedback practic...

11 Knowledge and Identity Work in the Supervision of Doctoral Student Writing: Shaping Rhetorical Subjects