Developing Research Writing: A Handbook for Supervisors and Advisors

Developing Research Writing is designed to encourage, inspire and improve the advisory practice of providing writing feedback. This book provides insights and advice that supervisors can use to advance their support of their research students' writing and at the same time survive increasing supervisory demands. Book parts are framed by empirical supervisor and doctoral student experiences and chapters within each part provide multiple approaches. The carefully chosen contributors are specialists on research writing and doctoral pedagogy, who guide the reader through the key stages of providing feedback. Split into nine key sections the book covers: Starting a new supervision with writing in focus Making use of other resources Encouraging style through control of language Providing feedback on English as an Additional Language (EAL) writing Overseeing the time-pressed writing processes of small research projects Managing theses by publication and performance-based documentation Maintaining students' writing momentum Keeping the examiner happy throughout the written thesis Supporting identity transition over writing development The parts cohere into a go-to handbook for developing the supervision process. Drawing on research, literature, and experience, Developing Research Writing offers well-theorized, yet practical and grounded advice conducive to good practices.

• | Author: Susan Carter, Deborah Laurs
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138688150
• | ISBN-13: 9781138688155