Note on Translation Introduction by Michael Holquist Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial Staff The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel) The Problem of Speech Genres The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis From Notes Made in 1970-71 Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences Index

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

A document that incorporates the new statement of the University’s Vision, Mission, Values and Commitments, and sets the Griffith 2020 agenda to further develop its position as a university of influence.

Griffith University Strategic Plan 2013-2017

Pedagogical practices for writing development in doctoral programs are often the by-product of completing dissertation research and may lack deliberate strategies to assist students with complex genres of writing. This article proposes a framework for doctoral education to assist students with mastery of threshold concepts in writing. Threshold concepts in writing are examined for their applicability to the evolution of writing in PhD nursing students as they begin to think and write like nurse scientists.

Threshold Concepts in Doctoral Education: A Framework for Writing Development in Novice Nurse Scientists.

Increasingly librarians are interested in how the community of practice (CoP) framework can provide a more complete picture of how information literacy practices are influenced by situated and social learning. Doctoral students are socialized into the practices of the academy and gradually take on the identity and work of a scholar in their field. As an illustration of the CoP framework among doctoral students, the author shares data from a qualitative study with a small group of early-career education PhD students who are developing their information literacy skills within their disciplinary and social contexts, using the CoP as a source of support and reflection around their identity development as scholarly researchers and writers. Using critical reflection, the author considers the role of a librarian-researcher in an existing CoP of doctoral students and what role librarians can play in supporting students’ research and writing practices within the community.

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“This Is Just What We Do”: PhD Students on Becoming Scholars in a Community of Practice

This paper presents a study of two international doctoral students’ perspectives on preparing to formally present the thesis proposal, which we conceptualise as a threshold in the PhD journey. They participated in a thesis writing group (TWG) that aimed to support international doctoral students to develop aspects of their scholarship in the early stages of their candidature. The case students reported feeling ‘stuck’ before joining the TWG run by the authors. After the writing group experience, they reported that they had gained confidence and developed the skills and knowledge required to prepare for their proposal presentation. Their perspectives were gathered through semi-structured interviews that were analysed using the conceptual framework of threshold concepts for doctoral learning. This small-scale study suggests that the collegial support provided by a TWG can be a powerful pedagogy enabling doctoral scholars to confidently negotiate crossing the thesis proposal threshold.

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Preparing to cross the research proposal threshold: A case study of two international doctoral students

Doctoral education scholars associate doctoral learning with certain threshold concepts, many of which are embedded in the literature review. In considering this, we draw from a literary metaphor o...

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Joining the research conversation: threshold concepts embedded in the literature review

Critical thinking and language:∂ the challenge of generic skills and disciplinary discourse, by Tim John Moore, London and New York, Continuum, 2011, 272 pp., £75/US$140 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-441-...

Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan

Papers

Preparing to cross the research proposal threshold: A case study of two international doctoral students

Joining the research conversation: threshold concepts embedded in the literature review

Critical thinking and language: the challenge of generic skills and disciplinary discourse, by Tim John Moore