Overcoming Problems in Doctoral Writing through the Use of Visualisations: Telling Our Stories

Autor/inn/en	Barrett, Terry; Hussey, Jennie
Titel	Overcoming Problems in Doctoral Writing through the Use of Visualisations: Telling Our Stories
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 20 (2015) 1, S.48-63 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2014.957266
Schlagwörter	Doctoral Programs; Graduate Students; Visualization; Academic Discourse; Writing (Composition); Problem Based Learning; Doctoral Dissertations; Writing Processes; Cognitive Processes; Figurative Language; Prompting; Metacognition; Workshops + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Doktorandenprogramm; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Discourse; Diskurs; Schreibübung; Problem-based learning; Problemorientiertes Lernen; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Benutzerführung; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung
Abstract	Doctoral students experience many challenges on the long journey towards completion. Common problems include: synthesising data, working at a conceptual level, clarifying the relationship of the parts of the thesis to the whole, finding a voice and completing a viva successfully. Few authors have addressed the use of visualisations to meet these challenges. This paper focuses on the use of visualisations in doctoral writing. It presents narratives about seven ways that visualisations can help students to make breakthroughs in their writing, namely, as an organiser of the relationships of the parts of the thesis to the whole, a trigger for peer discourse, a vehicle for conceptual work, a metaphor to express key concepts, a trigger for professional development, a visual aid for the viva and as a prompt for freedrawing and freewriting. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10