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Guidelines for doctoral peer review of writing doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Guidelines for doctoral peer review of writing

By Susan Carter Doctoral peer review of each other’s writing is something that we discuss from time to time on this blog. We have covered  practical issues and Dr Pia Lappalainen, as she described …

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Critical pragmatics of doctoral writing: fluency, plagiarism, structuring, procrastination doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Critical pragmatics of doctoral writing: fluency, plagiarism, structuring, procrastination

By Susan Carter and Cecile Badenhorst Years of participating in and hosting doctoral writing workshops has led me to believe that, when time and care are given to the pedantry of academic writing, …

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Helpful videos: Doctoral writing as thinking doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Helpful videos: Doctoral writing as thinking

By Susan Carter drawing on Cecile Badenhorst Cecile Badenhorst MA (UBC), PhD (Queen’s) is a Professor in the Adult Education/Post-Secondary program in the Faculty of Education at Memorial Universit…

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Doctoral writing 2023: Where’s this year heading? doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Doctoral writing 2023: Where’s this year heading?

By Susan Carter Somehow we’re in February and what was a nice new year to be celebrated a few weeks ago has cranked up into taking itself seriously and we are back at work in the wilds of doctoral …

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Wrapping up 2022 Here's to the year that's been - and looking forward to 2023, doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Wrapping up 2022

Again we have the pleasure of wrapping up another calendar year of the Doctoral Writing blog. As always, we note how quickly the year has passed – and 2022 is no exception. This year Covid continue…

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“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”: Suggestions for developing writing confidence ... Perhaps not all novice writers are afraid of sharing their work, but this was certainly my experience... doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”: Suggestions for developing writing confidence

By Sara Cotterall and Morena Botelho de Magalhães Morena and I have worked in universities for a number of years. Amongst other things, we share a passion for languages and beer! Morena grew up in …

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Doctoral writing support from supervisors and institutional support Part Two doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Doctoral writing development: supervisors and institutional support Part Two

By Claire Aitchison In the previous blog post I explored how doctoral writing is supported through the work of supervisors and ‘third space’ practitioners, that is, those who operate from instituti…

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Doctoral writing development: supervisors and institutional support Part One doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Doctoral writing development: supervisors and institutional support Part One

By Claire Aitchison Many of our readers work with doctoral candidates in support roles either as researcher educators, academic literacy advisors, or academic developers, often in addition to being…

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Writing Conference Abstracts doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Writing Conference Abstracts

Claire Aitchison For many researchers, presenting at a conference is the vehicle for the first ‘public’ display of their work. Whether you are supporting others with their conference abstract, or a…

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Doctoral Writing 10th Anniversary! doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Doctoral Writing 10th Anniversary!

By Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison and Susan Carter We are delighted (and somewhat amazed) that we’ve arrived at the 10th anniversary of the Doctoral Writing blog. The world seemed such a different …

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Sharing knowledge – from ancient manuscripts to PhD publications doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Sharing knowledge – from ancient manuscripts to PhD publications

By Cally Guerin At the end of June, I was lucky enough to attend the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference in Melbourne, Australia – the first face-to…

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Editing multi-authored academic publications: sharing experiences doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Editing multi-authored academic publications: sharing experiences

Many doctoral writers publish their research as articles in special issues of journals, as chapters in book collections of essays, or as contributions to academic blogs. In this post we explore a l…

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Best use of exemplars for doctoral writing doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Best use of exemplars for doctoral writing

By Douglas Eacersall and Cristy Bartlett, with Susan Carter It’s common that as supervisors and advisors we tell doctoral candidates to get online and look at other theses—any theses that can be fo…

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Co-authoring a PhD by publication: assigning percentages to who did what doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Co-authoring a PhD by publication: assigning percentages to who did what

By Cally Guerin (with a lot of help from her friends Claire Aitchison & Susan Carter) The thesis by publication (or article-based thesis) is becoming a common format in many disciplines and in …

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Postgraduate Supervision Conference, Stellenbosch, March 16-18, 2022 doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Postgraduate Supervision Conference, Stellenbosch, March 16-18, 2022

By Cally Guerin The 8th Postgraduate Supervision Conference (PGS) was run fully online for the first time in March this year. It’s the first full conference I’ve attended since the pandemic began a…

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Discussion chapters: writing feedback and revision doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Discussion chapters: writing feedback and revision

By Judy Parr and Susan Carter Judy Parr is a Professor of Education in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Highly effective, much esteemed, and generou…

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Ten tips for publishing out of the thesis doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Ten tips for publishing out of the thesis

Ruth Albertyn is affiliated to Stellenbosch University and has been involved in critical reading, mentoring and facilitating workshops on article writing across disciplines for the past 12 years ma…

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Doctoral writing as self-transcendence? doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Doctoral writing as self-transcendence?

By Susan Carter It’s the start of another new year, and this first post dares to be absurdly positive given how tough the last few years have been for doctoral writers and those who support them du…

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Another year and do we understand doctoral writing any better? doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Another year and do we understand doctoral writing any better?

  For many of us in English speaking countries, the end of the year means heading into seasonal holidays when we gather together with family and friends, share meals, drinks, Christmas pies an…

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Research conceptualization in doctoral writing Part Two doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…

Research conceptualization in doctoral writing Part Two

We hope you enjoy Part 2 of this post from Cecile Badenhorst, Professor in the Adult Education/Post-Secondary program in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University, Canada. Cecile explains her…

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