From Student to Scholar

A Guide to Writing Through the Dissertation Stage
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-56944-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

From Student to Scholar guides graduate students through the "hidden" developmental transition required in writing a dissertation and moving beyond, to become a successful scholar. Identifying common rhetorical challenges across disciplines, author Hjortshoj explains how to accommodate evolving audiences, motivations, standards, writing processes, and timelines. One full chapter is devoted to "writing blocks," and another offers advice to international students who are non-native speakers of English. The text also offers advice for managing relations with advisors and preparing for the diverse careers that PhDs, trained primarily as research specialists, actually enter. On the basis of more than thirty years of consultations with graduate students, this volume is an important addition to graduate thesis seminars and composition courses, as well as an invaluable reference for writing centers, workshops, and learning support centers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hjortshoj, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

- The Hidden Transition

Convenient Myths

The End of Schooling

- The Rhetoric of Student Writing

Common Ground

Evolving Forms and Expectations

Simulation and Frames of Reference

Performance and Process

Motivations and Standards

- The Rhetoric of Graduate and Professional Writing

Turning Points

Forms, Frames, and Movement: Where do we begin and, from there, where do we go?

The Scope and Scale of a Dissertation

Conceptual Balance

Interdisciplinary Reference Frames

- Relations with Advisors

- Getting the Work Done

Disillusionment

Productive Use of Time: The behavioral consensus

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Draft Management

The Social Dimensions of Scholarship

- Writing Blocks

What is a Writing Block?

Why do Blocks Occur?

Analysis, Resistance, and Release

- A Note to International Students

- Looking Ahead

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Hjortshoj is the emeritus Director of Writing in the Majors and Senior Lecturer in the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell University, USA.