Contortion, Loss and Moments for Joy: Insights into Writing Groups for International Doctoral Students

Autor/inn/en	Haeri Mazanderani, Fawzia; Danvers, Emily; Hinton-Smith, Tamsin; Webb, Rebecca
Titel	Contortion, Loss and Moments for Joy: Insights into Writing Groups for International Doctoral Students
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 27 (2022) 4, S.577-592 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Danvers, Emily)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2022.2034146
Schlagwörter	Collaborative Writing; Foreign Students; Doctoral Students; Student Experience; Academic Language; Multilingualism; English (Second Language); Sense of Community + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Studienerfahrung; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	The idealised internationally mobile doctoral student is often presented as seamlessly transitioning across space -- translating and neutralising themselves within globalised higher education. However, for those positioned as 'international', writing can be experienced as disconnecting. This paper considers the tensions of writing, as experienced by international doctoral students. It draws on 19 semi-structured interviews and a focus group with international doctoral students to explore their experiences of research writing within a writing group. These data revealed accounts of the contortions involved in continuous acts of translation and its resulting sense of 'othering' and dislocation. Alongside these revelations emerged feelings of loss in terms of perceived 'mastery' over language and the experience of the writing group as a space for both joy and vulnerability. Consequently, we argue for the importance of doctoral writing groups that subvert and reinvent dominant narratives of writing, writers and the 'international'. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01