Writing.
It’s so integral to the doctorate at every stage, from drafting the initial proposal to finalising the thesis. We know that students don’t just “write up”. Students write continuously: research notes, transcriptions, abstracts for conferences, posters, RF1s, drafts of chapters and so on. For most of us, writing is thinking and thinking entails writing. Researchers are writers. We also know that that writing “issues” can delay or prevent our doctoral students from finishing their theses. And we know that supervisors are imperative in not only inducting students into disciplinary writing, but also ensuring that their students develop habits and dispositions that enable their evolution into competent writers. To support supervisors in this crucial work, we are offering this workshop on working with your doctoral students’ writing. In part 1 of this workshop, we will begin by unpacking what it means to write the doctorate and our role as supervisors in that process. This will provide a frame for part 2, in which we will explore some tools for working with our doctoral students’ writing.
The workshop will be held face-to-face in the Sheffield Institute of Education. Participants are requested to bring laptops. No teaching materials will be printed unless specifically requested. Lunch will be provided.
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BIO: Dr Lisa McGrath is an associate professor and White Rose doctoral training partnership deputy director in the Sheffield Institute of Education. Lisa has published widely on academic writing, and specifically doctoral writing and writing for publication. She is associate editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Second Language Writing. Lisa supervises both PhD and EdD students…and of course works with them on their writing.