Supervisors' On-Script Feedback Comments on Drafts of Dissertations: Socialising Students into the Academic Discourse Community

Autor/inn/en	Basturkmen, Helen; East, Martin; Bitchener, John
Titel	Supervisors' On-Script Feedback Comments on Drafts of Dissertations: Socialising Students into the Academic Discourse Community
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 19 (2014) 4, S.432-445 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2012.752728
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Supervisors; Masters Theses; Doctoral Dissertations; Supervision; Feedback (Response); Academic Discourse; Reflection; Discourse Communities; Case Studies; Teacher Attendance; Student Attitudes; College Faculty; Graduate Students; Observation; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Discourse; Diskurs; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Schülerverhalten; Fakultät; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Beobachtung; Neuseeland
Abstract	Supervising masters and doctoral dissertations is a key function of teaching in higher education and giving written feedback on draft sections is an essential component of this function. However, the specific types of response that supervisors give to their dissertation students' written work have received limited research interest to date. The present study drew on an academic discourse community perspective in examining feedback comments on draft sections of dissertations across three disciplinary areas. It investigated which aspects of writing the comments focused on and how the comments were formulated linguistically, and developed descriptive frameworks that may be of value to supervisors wishing to reflect on their practice. Findings are discussed in relation to supervisors' perspectives, academic discourse community expectations and norms of supervisory communication. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10