Keith Hjortshoj

From Student to Scholar

A Guide to Writing Through the Dissertation Stage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, writing processes, and timelines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781138569447
• ISBN-10: 1138569445
• Artikelnr.: 53537811

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
1. The Hidden Transition
Convenient Myths
The End of Schooling
2. The Rhetoric of Student Writing
Common Ground
Evolving Forms and Expectations
Simulation and Frames of Reference
Performance and Process
Motivations and Standards
3. 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
4. Relations with Advisors
5. Getting the Work Done
Disillusionment
Productive Use of Time: The behavioral consensus
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Draft Management
The Social Dimensions of Scholarship
6. Writing Blocks
What is a Writing Block?
Why do Blocks Occur?
Analysis, Resistance, and Release
7. A Note to International Students
8. Looking Ahead