Doctoral Writing: Practices, Processes And Pleasures

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This book on doctoral writing offers a refreshingly new approach to help Ph.D. students and their supervisors overcome the host of writing challenges that can make—or break—the dissertation process. The book’s unique contribution to the field of doctoral writing is its style of reflection on ongoing, lived practice; this is more readable than a simple how-to book, making it a welcome resource to support doctoral writing. The experiences and practices of research writing are explored through bite-sized vignettes, stories, and actionable ‘teachable’ accounts.Doctoral Writing: Practices, Processes and Pleasures has its origins in a highly successful academic blog with an international following. Inspired by the popularity of the blog (which had more than 14,800 followers as of October 2019) and a desire to make our six years’ worth of posts more accessible, this book has been authored, reworked, and curated by the three editors of the blog and reconceived as a conveniently structured book. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Susan Carter, Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison)....Pages 1-6 Being and Developing Writers (Susan Carter, Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison)....Pages 7-50 Managing Productivity (Susan Carter, Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison)....Pages 51-91 Crafting Writing: Clarity, Style and Voice (Susan Carter, Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison)....Pages 93-125 Writing the Thesis (Susan Carter, Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison)....Pages 127-176 Disseminating Research (Susan Carter, Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison)....Pages 177-203 Conclusion (Susan Carter, Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison)....Pages 205-206 Back Matter ....Pages 207-219