The failure of dissertation advice books : toward alternative pedagogies for doctoral writing
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01/11/2008
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Resumo |
Anxious doctoral researchers can now call on a proliferation of advice books telling them how to produce their dissertations. This article analyzes some characteristics of this self-help genre, including the ways it produces an expert–novice relationship with readers, reduces dissertation writing to a series of linear steps, reveals hidden rules, and asserts a mix of certainty and fear to position readers "correctly." The authors argue for a more complex view of doctoral writing both as text work/identity work and as a discursive social practice. They reject transmission pedagogies that normalize the power-saturated relations of protégé and master and point to alternate pedagogical approaches that position doctoral researchers as colleagues engaged in a shared, unequal, and changing practice<br /> |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Sage Publications, Inc. |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30017358/kamler-thefailureofdissertation-2008.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189X08327390 |
Direitos |
2008, AERA |
Palavras-Chave | #higher education #supervision #writing |
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Journal Article |