Teaching Doctoral Students to Become Scholarly Writers: The importance of giving and receiving critiques

摘要: Data were gathered from 45 doctoral students through focus groups, observations, and written oral reflections to ascertain their perceptions of a specific teaching process (the Scholarly Writing Project), which was designed assist these in learning how do academic writing. It found that preparing receiving critiques professors peers perceived be the most influential element helping them understand scholarly writing producing better product. More specifically, believed two factors integral critiquing responsible for building confidence as writers: personalized face-to-face feedback; iterative or ongoing nature they received. In addition, emphasized although powerful useful, it also highly emotional at times frustrating. The findings suggest that, writing, instructors s...