Apprenticeship in Scholarly Publishing: A Student Perspective on Doctoral Supervisors’ Roles

Lei, Jun; Hu, Guangwei

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“…However, what has not yet been as widely reported in the ERPP research to date is the extent to which the role of the supervisor is conducive to the fostering of publishing scholars beyond the supervisor-student relationship. To that extent, the research reported here contributes to furthering insight into that relationship, and is consistent with Lei and Hu's recent study in China [21], in which a similar proportion of participants (only 2 of 11 supervisees) reported any sort of systematic publishing guidance by supervisors.…”

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Thesis Supervisors as Literacy Brokers in Brazil

Martínez

Graf

2016

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Abstract:In Brazil, as in much of the academic world, there is an increasing acknowledgement among scholars that their chances of having their research noticed by a geographically diverse scientific community increase when that research is communicated in English. At the same time, much like the majority of the world, the first language of Brazil is not English, which raises one question that heretofore has not been addressed in the context of that country: How do Brazilian scholars write their research articles in English? That question drove the initial phase of the exploratory study described in the present paper, and it is one that also led the authors to discover that one key agent in the publishing process in Brazilian academia is the dissertation/thesis supervisor. Questionnaire and interview data collected from students and supervisors at a Brazilian university suggest that student and lecturer alike see the need and value of specialized writing guidance, yet neither party seems to ascribe the role of "literacy broker" (a person who contributes to the development of a text intended for publication) to the thesis supervisor in any specific way. Pedagogical implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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confidence: 74%

Thesis Supervisors as Literacy Brokers in Brazil

Martínez

Graf

2016

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“…This suggests that the CIPSE approach can contribute effectively to two of the types of educational intervention posited as useful by : explicit teaching and mentoring programs. The role of the thesis supervisor as mentor is clearly important in supporting first publication efforts by research students in the sciences (Lei & Hu, 2015). Recommendations to the institution by our participants included continuing the training of mentors using workshops like the one run in 2014 until a ratio of 1:5 is reached.…”

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2. Introducing research rigour in the social sciences: Transcultural strategies for teaching ERPP writing, research design, and resistance to epistemic erasure

Cadman¹

2017

Publishing Research in English as an Additional Language: Practices, Pathways and Potentials

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This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. This licence allows for the copying, distribution, display and performance of this work for non-commercial purposes providing the work is clearly attributed to the copyright holders. Address all inquiries to the Director at the above address. List of contributorsLaurence Anthony is professor of applied linguistics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. He has a BSc degree (Mathematical Physics) from the University of Manchester, UK, and MA (TESL/TEFL) and PhD (Applied Linguistics) degrees from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a former director and the current co-ordinator of graduate school English in the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering [CELESE]. His main research interests are in corpus linguistics, educational technology and English for Specific Purposes [ESP] program design and teaching methodologies. He serves on the editorial boards of various international journals and is a frequent member of the scientific committees of international conferences. He received the National Prize of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies [JAECS] in 2012 for his work in corpus software tools design. He is the developer of various corpus tools including AntConc, AntWordProfiler, FireAnt, and ProtAnt.Karen Bennett lectures in translation and academic writing at the Nova University in Lisbon. She has an MA and PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Lisbon, and researches the translation and transmission of knowledge (amongst other things) with the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies [CETAPS] and University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies [ULICES/CEAUL]. She has published three books and numerous articles and book chapters, and is also currently co-editing a special issue of The Translator with Rita Queiroz de Barros on the subject of international English and translation.Ana Bocanegra-Valle is a senior lecturer at the University of Cadiz, Spain, where she teaches Maritime English to undergraduates and master's students. She has conducted research on needs analysis, Maritime English discourse, academic English and English for research publication purposes. She was editor of the LSP journal Ibérica between 2006 and 2014 and is at present book review editor for the journal ESP Today.Sally Burgess is a lecturer in English at the University of La Laguna, Spain. Her main research interests are in cross-cultural rhetoric, the contribution of language professionals to the preparation of research publications, the teaching of writing in the university context and, most recently, the effects of research evaluation policies on Spanish scholars' publishing practices. She has published on all of ...

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“…Hard science students also highly value the help of their supervisors in correcting the style and language of their foreign language articles (they rated it as the second most important aspect), while the students in the soft sciences expect their supervisors to help with improving the style and language of their Hungarian articles. Studies have shown that the supervisor is a major factor in research performance, which is measured mainly in publications (Gu, Lin, Vogel, & Tian, 2011;Lei & Hu, 2015) and these data show that Hungarian doctoral students expect their supervisors to assist them with successful publication. In general, students also said that their supervisors actually performed these activities, although some students felt that their supervisors could improve in certain areas.…”

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Doctoral students’ perspectives on academic publishing

Nagano¹,

Bukovszki²

2016

EduLingua

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The general aim of the study is to present the challenges of writing for academic publication as perceived by doctoral students of a particular Hungarian university. The respondents of an on-line questionnaire survey (N=70) were asked to consider their practices for meeting publication requirements and express their opinions on differences between writing for publication in their first and second languages, the (lack) of support in publication-related processes, and the most common language-related problems they face when publishing their research. The findings show considerable differences between the answers and perceptions of doctoral students of humanities and social sciences ("soft sciences") and those in engineering ("hard science"). Furthermore, the results provide directions for further investigation in order to explore practices and differences in more detail. Finally, some pedagogical implications for language teachers and supervisors are introduced and possible approaches are discussed for offering more comprehensive support in writing for research publication.

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Apprenticeship in Scholarly Publishing: A Student Perspective on Doctoral Supervisors’ Roles

Cited by 39 publications

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Thesis Supervisors as Literacy Brokers in Brazil

Thesis Supervisors as Literacy Brokers in Brazil

2. Introducing research rigour in the social sciences: Transcultural strategies for teaching ERPP writing, research design, and resistance to epistemic erasure

Doctoral students’ perspectives on academic publishing

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