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‘Becoming and being writers’: the experiences of doctoral students in writing groups

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Pages 263-275 | Published online: 27 Nov 2008

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Miriam Jaffe, Erin Kelly, Alicia Williams, Alanna Beroiza, Mark DiGiacomo & Madhav Kafle. (2024) Collaboration and ‘potential space’: creative play in the writing alliance. Teaching in Higher Education 29:2, pages 404-419.
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Helen Donaghue & Gill Adams. (2023) The role of situated talk in developing doctoral students’ researcher identities. Studies in Continuing Education 0:0, pages 1-20.
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Lisa Hodge & Jason Murphy. (2023) Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond. Educational Review 0:0, pages 1-17.
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Emma Waight. (2022) Doctoral writing as an assemblage in space and time. Journal of Further and Higher Education 46:5, pages 605-619.
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Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani, Emily Danvers, Tamsin Hinton-Smith & Rebecca Webb. (2022) Contortion, loss and moments for joy: insights into writing groups for international doctoral students. Teaching in Higher Education 27:4, pages 577-592.
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Wendi K. Zimmer, Chi-Ning Chang, Brandie M. Semma & Debra Fowler. (2022) Developing Graduate Writing Habits and Skills: Establishing Writing Sessions with STEM Graduate Students. College Teaching 70:2, pages 133-144.
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Carles Monereo & Eva Liesa. (2022) Early career researchers’ identity positions based on research experiences. Higher Education Research & Development 41:1, pages 193-210.
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Catherine Hastings, Angela Davenport & Karen Sheppard. (2022) The loneliness of a long-distance critical realist student: the story of a doctoral writing group. Journal of Critical Realism 21:1, pages 65-82.
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Katherine A. Lyon, Heather Holroyd, Nicole Malette, Kerry Greer & Silvia K. Bartolic. (2022) Owning the conversation: mentor and mentee perceptions of student-led peer mentoring. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning 30:1, pages 65-83.
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Deya Chakraborty, Ali Soyoof, Mehdi Moharami, Ade Dwi Utami, Shaoru Zeng, Ngo Cong-Lem, Danielle Hradsky, Jacky-Lou Maestre, Elham M. Foomani & Lynette Pretorius. (2021) Feedback as a space for academic social practice in doctoral writing groups. Educational and Developmental Psychologist 38:2, pages 238-248.
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Kim Beasy, S. Emery, L. Dyer, B. Coleman, D. Bywaters, T. Garrad, J. Crawford, K. Swarts & S. Jahangiri. (2020) Writing together to foster wellbeing: doctoral writing groups as spaces of wellbeing. Higher Education Research & Development 39:6, pages 1091-1105.
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Jeff Strietzel, Corina R. Kaul & Rishi Sriram. (2020) Overall Effectiveness of a Student Affairs Scholar Practitioner Workshop: A Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice 57:4, pages 441-456.
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Bjørn Sletto, Kristine Stiphany, Jane Futrell Winslow, Andrea Roberts, Marla Torrado, Alejandra Reyes, Ariadna Reyes, Juan Yunda, Christina Wirsching, Kwangyul Choi & Kristina Tajchman. (2020) Demystifying Academic Writing in the Doctoral Program: Writing Workshops, Peer Reviews, and Scholarly Identities. Planning Practice & Research 35:3, pages 349-362.
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Diane L. Lorenzetti, Leah Shipton, Lorelli Nowell, Michele Jacobsen, Liza Lorenzetti, Tracey Clancy & Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci. (2019) A systematic review of graduate student peer mentorship in academia. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning 27:5, pages 549-576.
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Emily Danvers, Tamsin Hinton-Smith & Rebecca Webb. (2019) Power, pedagogy and the personal: feminist ethics in facilitating a doctoral writing group. Teaching in Higher Education 24:1, pages 32-46.
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Cho Kwong Charlie Lam, Cuong Huu Hoang, Ricky Wai Kiu Lau, Basil Cahusac de Caux, Yang Chen, Qiao Qian Tan & Lynette Pretorius. (2019) Experiential learning in doctoral training programmes: fostering personal epistemology through collaboration. Studies in Continuing Education 41:1, pages 111-128.
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David R. Jones. (2018) A proposed systems model for socializing the graduate writer. Studies in Higher Education 43:1, pages 173-189.
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Basil Khalifa Costas Derek Cahusac de Caux, Cho Kwong Charlie Lam, Ricky Lau, Cuong Huu Hoang & Lynette Pretorius. (2017) Reflection for learning in doctoral training: writing groups, academic writing proficiency and reflective practice. Reflective Practice 18:4, pages 463-473.
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Charlotte Wegener, Ninna Meier & Karen Ingerslev. (2016) Borrowing brainpower – sharing insecurities. Lessons learned from a doctoral peer writing group. Studies in Higher Education 41:6, pages 1092-1105.
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Der-Thanq “Victor” Chen, Yu-Mei Wang & Wei Ching Lee. (2016) Challenges confronting beginning researchers in conducting literature reviews. Studies in Continuing Education 38:1, pages 47-60.
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Karen Nairn, Jenny Cameron, Megan Anakin, Adisorn Juntrasook, Rob Wass, Judith Sligo & Catherine Morrison. (2015) Negotiating the challenge of collaborative writing: learning from one writing group's mutiny. Higher Education Research & Development 34:3, pages 596-608.
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Olga Kozar & Juliet F. Lum. (2015) Online doctoral writing groups: do facilitators or communication modes make a difference?. Quality in Higher Education 21:1, pages 38-51.
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Shelley Murphy, Monica McGlynn-Stewart & Farveh Ghafouri. (2014) Constructing Our Identities through a Writing Support Group: Bridging from Doctoral Students to Teacher Educator Researchers. Studying Teacher Education 10:3, pages 239-254.
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Carly J. Lassig, Lisette H. Dillon & Carmel M. Diezmann. (2013) Student or scholar? Transforming identities through a research writing group. Studies in Continuing Education 35:3, pages 299-314.
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Michelle Maher, Amber Fallucca & Helen Mulhern Halasz. (2013) Write On! Through to the Ph.D.: using writing groups to facilitate doctoral degree progress. Studies in Continuing Education 35:2, pages 193-208.
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Cally Guerin, Vicki Xafis, DianaV. Doda, MarianneH. Gillam, AllisonJ. Larg, Helene Luckner, Nasreen Jahan, Aris Widayati & Chuangzhou Xu. (2013) Diversity in collaborative research communities: a multicultural, multidisciplinary thesis writing group in public health. Studies in Continuing Education 35:1, pages 65-81.
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Michelle A. Maher, Briana Crotwell Timmerman, David F. Feldon & Denise Strickland. (2013) Factors Affecting the Occurrence of Faculty-Doctoral Student Coauthorship. The Journal of Higher Education 84:1, pages 121-143.
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Angela Dwyer, Bridget Lewis, Fiona McDonald & Marcelle Burns. (2012) It's always a pleasure: exploring productivity and pleasure in a writing group for early career academics. Studies in Continuing Education 34:2, pages 129-144.
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James Hartley. (2011) Publishing pedagogies for the doctorate and beyond. Studies in Higher Education 36:1, pages 121-123.
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Alison Lee & Barbara Kamler. (2008) Bringing pedagogy to doctoral publishing. Teaching in Higher Education 13:5, pages 511-523.
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Kirstin Wilmot. Constructing research findings: a tool for teaching doctoral writing. Teaching in Higher Education 0:0, pages 1-16.
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Margaret Bearman, Joanna Tai, Michael Henderson, Rachelle Esterhazy, Paige Mahoney & Elizabeth Molloy. Enhancing feedback practices within PhD supervision: a qualitative framework synthesis of the literature. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 0:0, pages 1-17.
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