DoctoralWriting: a resource for practice
Doctoral Writing
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1y ago
From Claire Aitchison, Susan Carter and Cally Guerin After 11 years of working together on this wonderful blog about doctoral writing we realise that the time is right to reimagine our roles and the operation of the site. From June 2023 the DoctoralWriting blog will move from being a place of regular blog-posting to become a repository of resources. This means we will cease putting up new posts; however, the Doctoral Writing Discussions hosted from this site will continue, as will the rich array of resources we invite you to mine. We have just under 400 blogs on all things to do with doctoral ..read more
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Guidelines for doctoral peer review of writing
Doctoral Writing
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1y ago
By Susan Carter Doctoral peer review of each other’s writing is something that we discuss from time to time on this blog. We have covered  practical issues and Dr Pia Lappalainen, as she described a course for doctoral candidates hosted at the Aalto University in Finland, included an extensive list of steps to support peer review. I have been prompted to review this list against two other writing group guides because, as I commenced 2023 with a doctoral writing group that mostly peer review, we reconsidered  reviewing guidelines in our first meeting. In my experience it can be hard t ..read more
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Critical pragmatics of doctoral writing: fluency, plagiarism, structuring, procrastination
Doctoral Writing
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1y ago
By Susan Carter and Cecile Badenhorst Years of participating in and hosting doctoral writing workshops has led me to believe that, when time and care are given to the pedantry of academic writing, the benefits are significant.  When grammar and syntax are impeccable, writers avoid annoying examiners. That factor is quite important. But I think that carefully edited writing improves more substantially than a surface level tidy-up. So, some workshops focus on such mundanities as grammar, syntax and punctuation while facilitators hope that the talk in their workshops will take writers furthe ..read more
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Helpful videos: Doctoral writing as thinking
Doctoral Writing
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1y ago
By Susan Carter drawing on Cecile Badenhorst Cecile Badenhorst MA (UBC), PhD (Queen’s) is a Professor in the Adult Education/Post-Secondary program in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University in Canada.  Her research interests are post-secondary and adult learning experiences particularly graduate research writing and academic literacies.  She has written three books in this area:  Research Writing (2007), Dissertation Writing (2008) and Productive Writing (2010). She has also co-edited with Cally Guerin, Research literacies and writing pedagogies for masters and doc ..read more
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Doctoral writing 2023: Where’s this year heading?
Doctoral Writing
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1y ago
By Susan Carter Somehow we’re in February and what was a nice new year to be celebrated a few weeks ago has cranked up into taking itself seriously and we are back at work in the wilds of doctoral pedagogy. For many of us, that means we are back thinking of different ways to support doctoral writing strongly, so that authors can both crack through obstacles to doing it—Paul Silvia is a help with this—and clearly see what examiners are looking for and how the weird genre of the doctoral thesis works. Claire, Cally and I would like to begin this year with an invitation by asking readers who rout ..read more
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Wrapping up 2022
Doctoral Writing
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2y ago
Again we have the pleasure of wrapping up another calendar year of the Doctoral Writing blog. As always, we note how quickly the year has passed – and 2022 is no exception. Adelaide Bus Stop painting Artist Unknown This year Covid continued to dominate our lives despite the desire of our governments to ignore it, and, increasingly, we have seen the impacts of global warming on our everyday routines. In Australia, like elsewhere, weather events have caused great upheaval – following massive fires in previous years, in 2022 we’ve experienced devastating floods. Few people will have escaped the ..read more
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“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”: Suggestions for developing writing confidence
Doctoral Writing
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2y ago
By Sara Cotterall and Morena Botelho de Magalhães Morena and I have worked in universities for a number of years. Amongst other things, we share a passion for languages and beer! Morena grew up in Brazil and I am from NZ. In 2014 we met at a conference in Bangkok and in 2016, we met at a conference in China, by which time we had become colleagues and friends. So, in 2017, when Morena was doing her PhD in Auckland and I had returned to New Zealand from teaching in the Middle East, we decided to present a conference paper together: “Doctoral research by EAL candidates: How effective is generic s ..read more
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Doctoral writing development: supervisors and institutional support Part Two
Doctoral Writing
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2y ago
By Claire Aitchison In the previous blog post I explored how doctoral writing is supported through the work of supervisors and ‘third space’ practitioners, that is, those who operate from institutional units such as learning or writing centres, research offices or academic development units. In that post, I tried to tease out what might be different between centrally provided services and the work of a supervisor in relation to doctoral writing development. It’s a slippery space that challenges us to (re)consider our roles and practices. Here I extend that discussion to consider how supervisor ..read more
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Doctoral writing development: supervisors and institutional support Part One
Doctoral Writing
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2y ago
By Claire Aitchison Many of our readers work with doctoral candidates in support roles either as researcher educators, academic literacy advisors, or academic developers, often in addition to being doctoral candidate supervisors. In this two-part blog, I draw on my own experiences, to explore the differences and interfaces between these roles, and what this means for the doctoral candidate. I am thinking out loud – this is a work in progress designed to invite comment on my nascent reflections about the practices that mark our work with doctoral writing. Who are the doctoral writing supporters ..read more
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Writing Conference Abstracts
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2y ago
Claire Aitchison For many researchers, presenting at a conference is the vehicle for the first ‘public’ display of their work. Whether you are supporting others with their conference abstract, or a student making your first draft – this post outlines key features for a successful abstract. Most of us are familiar with the abstracts of scholarly papers, however, while similar to the abstract that accompanies a journal paper, conference abstracts have some unique features. Firstly, the conference abstract is an independent text that must stand on its own. It isn’t necessarily the outcome, nor co ..read more
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