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Original Articles

Disciplining writing: the case for multi‐disciplinary writing groups to support writing for publication by higher degree by research candidates in the humanities, arts and social sciences

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Pages 137-149 | Received 26 Dec 2006, Accepted 11 Aug 2008, Published online: 11 Mar 2009

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