Helping Doctoral Students Write: Pedagogies for Supervision

by Kamler; Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780415346849
• ISBN10: 0415346843
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Putting doctoral writing centre stage	p. 1
Writing the doctorate, writing the scholar	p. 14
Persuading an octopus into a glass: working with literatures	p. 28
Text work in the field of knowledge production	p. 45
Reconsidering the personal	p. 59
Choreographing the dissertation	p. 81
The grammar of authority	p. 100
Crafting a writerly text	p. 125
Institutionalizing doctoral writing practices	p. 144
Notes	p. 160
Bibliography	p. 162
Index	p. 171
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