Helping Doctoral Students Write: Pedagogies for Supervision

✍ Scribed by Barbara Kamler, Pat Thomson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This essential guide offers a new approach to doctoral writing, written specifically for doctoral supervisors. Rejecting the DIY websites and manuals that promote a privatised skills-based approach to writing research, Kamler and Thomson offer a new framework for scholarly work to help doctorate students produce clear and well-argued dissertations. Drawing on a wide range of research and hands-on experience, the authors argue that making an original contribution to scholarly knowledge requires doctoral candidates to do both text and identity work. Their discussion of the complexities of forming a scholarly identity is illustrated by the stories and writing of real doctoral students.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedications......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 10
Foreword......Page 11
1. Putting doctoral writing centre stage......Page 14
2. Writing the doctorate, writing the scholar......Page 27
3. Persuading an octopus into a glass: Working with literatures......Page 41
4. Text work in the field of knowledge production......Page 58
5. Reconsidering the personal......Page 72
6. Choreographing the dissertation......Page 94
7. The grammar of authority......Page 113
8. Crafting a writerly text......Page 138
9. Institutionalizing doctoral writing practices......Page 157
Notes......Page 173
Bibliography......Page 175
Index......Page 184