The ‘Write’ Skills and More: A Thesis Writing Group for Doctoral Students

References

• Aitchison , C. and Lee , A. 2006 . Research writing: problems and pedagogies . Teaching in Higher Education , 11 ( 3 ) : 265 – 278 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Antoniou , M. and Moriarty , J. 2008 . What can academic writers learn from creative writers? Developing guidance and support for lecturers in higher education . Teaching in Higher Education , 13 ( 2 ) : 157 – 167 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baldwin , C. and Chandler , G. E. 2002 . Improving faculty publication output: the role of a writing coach . Journal of Professional Nursing , 18 ( 1 ) : 8 – 15 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boice , R. and Jones , F. 1984 . Why academicians don't write . Journal of Higher Education , 55 ( 5 ) : 567 – 582 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boud , D. and Lee , A. 2005 . ‘Peer learning’ as pedagogic discourse for research education . Studies in Higher Education , 30 ( 5 ) : 501 – 516 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Caffarella , R. S. and Barnett , B. G. 2000 . Teaching doctoral students to become scholarly writers: the importance of giving and receiving critiques . Studies in Higher Education , 25 ( 1 ) : 39 – 52 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cargill , M. 2004 . Transferable skills within research degrees: a collaborative genre-based approach to developing publication skills and its implications for research education . Teaching in Higher Education , 9 ( 1 ) : 83 – 98 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Casanave , C. P. and Hubbard , P. 1992 . The writing assignments and writing problems of doctoral students: faculty perceptions, pedagogical issues, and needed research . English for Specific Purposes , 11 ( 1 ) : 33 – 49 .
   Google Scholar
• Craswell , G. 2007 . Deconstructing the skills training debate in doctoral education . Higher Education Research & Development , 26 ( 4 ) : 377 – 391 .
   Google Scholar
• Cumbie , S. , Weinert , C. , Luparell , S. , Conley , V. and Smith , J. 2005 . Developing a scholarship community . Journal of Nursing Scholarship , 37 ( 3 ) : 289 – 293 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cuthbert , D. and Spark , C. 2008 . Getting a GRiP: examining the outcomes of a pilot program to support graduate research students in writing for publication . Studies in Higher Education , 33 ( 1 ) : 77 – 88 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• DeLyser , D. 2003 . Teaching graduate students to write: a seminar for thesis and dissertation writers . Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 27 ( 2 ) : 169 – 181 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Demeritt , D. 2004 . Research training and the end (s) of the PhD . Geoforum , 35 ( 6 ) : 655 – 660 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dunleavy , P. 2003 . Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation , Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan .
   Google Scholar
• Engstrom , C. M. 1999 . Promoting the scholarly writing of female doctoral students in higher education and student affairs graduate programs . NASPA Journal , 36 ( 4 ) : 264 – 277 .
   Google Scholar
• Eyres , S. J. , Hatch , D. H. , Turner , S. B. and West , M. 2001 . Doctoral students' responses to writing critique: messages for teachers . Journal of Nursing Education , 40 ( 4 ) : 149 – 155 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gilbert , R. , Balatti , J. , Turner , P. and Whitehouse , H. 2004 . The generic skills debate in research higher degrees . Higher Education Research & Development , 23 ( 3 ) : 375 – 388 .
   Google Scholar
• Gould , J. C. , Katzmarek , J. M. and Shaw , P. A. 2007 . New domains: navigating the world of academic writing . Phi Delta Kappan , 88 ( 10 ) : 776 – 780 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grant , B. and Knowles , S. 2000 . Flights of imagination: academic women be (com)ing writers . International Journal for Academic Development , 5 ( 1 ) : 6 – 19 .
   Google Scholar
• Grzybowski , S. C. W. , Bates , J. , Calam , B. , Alred , J. , Elwood Martin , R. , Andrew , R. , Rieb , L. , Harris , S. , Wiebe , C. , Knell , E. and Berger , S. 2003 . A physician peer support writing group . Family Medicine , 35 ( 3 ) : 195 – 201 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hay , I. and Delaney , E. J. 1994 . ‘Who teaches, learns’: writing groups in geographical education . Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 18 ( 3 ) : 317 – 334 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johnston , R. 2003 . Geography: a different sort of discipline? . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , 28 ( 2 ) : 133 – 141 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamler , B. and Thomson , P. 2004 . Driven to abstraction: doctoral supervision and writing pedagogies . Teaching in Higher Education , 9 ( 2 ) : 195 – 209 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamler, B. & Thomson, P. (2006) Doctoral writing: pedagogies for work with literatures. Available at http://www.deakin.edu.au/studentlife/academic–skills/research/kamler.doc (http://www.deakin.edu.au/studentlife/academic-skills/research/kamler.doc) (accessed September 2007).
   Google Scholar
• Kennedy-Kalafatis , S. and Carleton , D. 1996 . Encouraging peer dialogue in the geography classroom: peer editing to improve student writing . Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 20 ( 3 ) : 323 – 341 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kinnucan-Welsch , K. , Seery , M. E. , Adams , S. M. , Bowman , C. L. , Joseph , L. M. and Davis , W. 2000 . Write (ing) (ers') support group: stories of facing ‘publish or perish’ . Teacher Education Quarterly , 27 ( 2 ) : 105 – 118 .
   Google Scholar
• Kumar , V. and Stracke , E. 2007 . An analysis of written feedback on a PhD thesis . Teaching in Higher Education , 12 ( 4 ) : 461 – 470 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Larcombe , W. , McCosker , A. and O'Loughlin , K. 2007 . Supporting education PhD and DEd students to become confident academic writers: an evaluation of thesis writers' circles . Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice , 4 ( 1 ) : 54 – 63 .
   Google Scholar
• Lee , A. and Boud , D. 2003 . Writing groups, change and academic identity: research development as local practice . Studies in Higher Education , 28 ( 2 ) : 187 – 200 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Madsen , K. D. 2002 . Writing for nongeographers: lessons from the J.B. Jackson Prize . Geographical Review , 92 ( 1 ) : 63 – 72 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mayrath , M. C. 2008 . Attributions of productive authors in educational psychology journals . Educational Psychology Review , 20 ( 1 ) : 41 – 56 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McGrail , M. R. , Rickard , C. M. and Jones , R. 2006 . Publish or perish: a systematic review of interventions to increase academic publication rates . Higher Education Research & Development , 25 ( 1 ) : 19 – 35 .
   Google Scholar
• McVeigh , C. , Moyle , K. , Forrester , K. , Chaboyer , W. , Patterson , E. and St. John , W. 2002 . Publication syndicates: in support of nursing scholarship . Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing , 33 ( 2 ) : 63 – 66 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Moore , S. 2003 . Writers' retreats for academics: exploring and increasing the motivation to write . Journal of Further and Higher Education , 27 ( 3 ) : 333 – 342 .
   Google Scholar
• Morss , K. and Murray , R. 2001 . Researching academic writing within a structured programme: insights and outcomes . Studies in Higher Education , 26 ( 1 ) : 35 – 52 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mullen , C. A. 2001 . The need for a curricular writing model for graduate students . Journal of Further and Higher Education , 25 ( 1 ) : 117 – 126 .
   Google Scholar
• Murray , R. 2001 . Integrating teaching and research through writing development for students and staff . Active Learning in Higher Education , 2 ( 1 ) : 31 – 45 .
   Google Scholar
• Murray , R. 2002 . How to Write a Thesis , Maidenhead : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Murray , R. and Newton , M. 2008 . Facilitating writing for publication . Physiotherapy , 94 ( 1 ) : 29 – 34 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pololi , L. , Knight , S. and Dunn , K. 2004 . Facilitating scholarly writing in academic medicine: lessons learned from a collaborative peer mentoring program . Journal of General Internal Medicine , 19 ( 1 ) : 64 – 68 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Richardson , L. 2003 . “ Writing: a method of inquiry ” . In Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials , Edited by: Denzin , N. K. and Lincoln , Y. S. 499 – 541 . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications .
   Google Scholar
• Rose , M. and McClafferty , K. A. 2001 . A call for the teaching of writing in graduate education . Educational Researcher , 30 ( 2 ) : 27 – 33 .
   Google Scholar
• Shaw , J. and Matthews , J. 1998 . Communicating academic geography – the continuing challenge . Area , 30 ( 4 ) : 367 – 372 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Solem , M. N. and Foote , K. E. 2004 . Concerns, attitudes, and abilities of early-career geography faculty . Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 94 ( 4 ) : 889 – 912 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Torrance , M. , Thomas , G. V. and Robinson , E. J. 1992 . The writing experiences of social science research students . Studies in Higher Education , 17 ( 2 ) : 155 – 167 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tysick , C. and Babb , N. 2006 . Writing support for junior faculty librarians: a case study . Journal of Academic Librarianship , 32 ( 1 ) : 94 – 100 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wallace , M. and Wray , A. 2006 . Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates , London : Sage Publications .
   Google Scholar