Helping Doctoral Students Write Pedagogies for Supervision

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 provide 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 work and identity work. Their discussion of the complexities of forming a scholarly identity is illustrated by the stories and writing of real doctoral students.Thomson, Pat is the author of 'Helping Doctoral Students Write Pedagogies for Supervision', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415346849 and ISBN 0415346843.