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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.
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Susan Carter Cally Guerin Claire Aitchison Doctoral Writing Practices, Processes and Pleasures Doctoral Writing Susan Carter Cally Guerin Claire Aitchison • • Doctoral Writing Practices, Processes and Pleasures 123 Susan Carter The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand Cally Guerin University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia Claire Aitchison University of South Australia Adelaide, SA, Australia ISBN 978-981-15-1807-2 ISBN 978-981-15-1808-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1808-9 (eBook) © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore Acknowledgements We thank our intellectual companions—those guest post authors, collaborators, and the researchers we admire and cite often—who confirm, challenge and energise our interest in doctoral writing. The ‘DoctoralWriting’ blog could not exist without you, nor our many followers, readers and networked supporters, and nor could this book. Also to be thanked are the many colleagues and students with whom we have worked—practice in the field has been a prime motivator. The University of Auckland must be thanked for the Faculty Research Development Funding that enabled and drove us to complete this book. Kosala Krishnan: thanks for early help in reassembling posts. Andrew Lavery, we are grateful for analysis, common sense and humour. Damon Ellis, we’ve benefited from your real