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Welsh, Benjamin; Ellington, Roni; Shockley, Kmt; Prime, Glenda – Online Submission, 2020
Research suggests that writing the dissertation is one of the major barriers to doctoral students completing their degrees (Di Pierro, 2007). Much of the research on dissertation writing focuses on teaching the technical aspects of dissertation writing and fails to address the underlying issues that give rise to students' struggles with…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Minority Group Students, Feedback (Response)
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Baaijen, Veerle M.; Galbraith, David; de Glopper, Kees – Written Communication, 2012
Although keystroke logging promises to provide a valuable tool for writing research, it can often be difficult to relate logs to underlying processes. This article describes the procedures and measures that the authors developed to analyze a sample of 80 keystroke logs, with a view to achieving a better alignment between keystroke-logging measures…
Descriptors: Sentences, Text Structure, Factor Analysis, Classification
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Hamilton, David; Weiner, Gaby – Education Inquiry, 2011
Drawing on our experience of working in Sweden and seeking to help colleagues enter the prestigious culture of Anglophone academic text production, this article explores the landscape of academic writing and publishing. We first provide an account of the birth of academic writing and the gradual emergence of its present forms. We then explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Faculty Publishing, Writing for Publication
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Roozen, Kevin – Written Communication, 2010
An extensive body of scholarship has documented the way disciplinary texts and activities are produced and mediated through their relationship to a wide array of extradisciplinary discourses. This article seeks to complement and extend that line of work by drawing upon Witte's (1992) notion of intertext to address the way disciplinary activities…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Graduate Students, English Literature, Reader Text Relationship