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Academic Career

Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Writing Courses (4/5)

While North American universities have a long tradition of offering compulsory composition classes for first-year undergraduates, there are no comparable…

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Academic Career

Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: International Collaborations (5/5)

Introduction The new globalized and networked conditions in which universities operate provide new opportunities for creating writing cultures though international…

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Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Writing-for-Publication Groups (2/5)

Unfortunately, many doctoral students are left to their own devices to sort out how to publish out of their doctorate…

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Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Collaborative Work with Academic Support Services (3/5)

Most universities offer a range of academic support services. These usually include undergraduate workshops and individual and group tutorial assistance.…

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Academic Career

Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Introduction (1/5)

Introduction It has been argued that research is writing, and that a focus on writing in supervision can support the co-construction…

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Defence & Viva

PhD vivas are unfair and I am paying the price

… I sent my thesis for examination with the approval of my supervisors, both of whom are professors in their…

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PhD & Masters

The Aims of PhD Candidate, Supervisor and Examiner.

In this article, we shall discuss the nature of a PhD program. We shall consider the inevitably different aims that…

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Supervisors

How to Write to a Prospective PhD or Post-Doc Supervisor

Today’s post is from Prof Faye Hicks. Faye is a hydrotechincal (civil) engineer with 30+ years of experience and the…

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