From Student to Scholar: A Guide to Writing Through the Dissertation Stage

by Keith Hjortshoj

Publisher:

Routledge

, 2019

Overview

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, motivations, standards, writing processes, and timelines. One full chapter is devoted to “writing blocks,” and another offers advice to international students who are non-native speakers of English. The text also offers advice for managing relations with advisors and preparing for the diverse careers that PhDs, trained primarily as research specialists, actually enter. On the basis of more than thirty years of consultations with graduate students, this volume is an important addition to graduate thesis seminars and composition courses, as well as an invaluable reference for writing centers, workshops, and learning support centers.

Key Features

• Identifyes common rhetorical challenges across disciplines.
• Explains how to accommodate evolving audiences.
• Offers advice for managing relations with advisors.

Product Details

• Title: From Student to Scholar: A Guide to Writing through the Dissertation Stage
• Author: Keith Hjortshoj
• Publisher: Routledge
• Print Publication Date: 2019
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 190
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Academic writing; Dissertations, Academic › Authorship; Learning and scholarship
• ISBNs: 9781138569447, 9780203704264, 1138569445, 0203704266
• Resource ID: LLS:STDNTSCHLRDSSTG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-09T17:25:30Z

About Keith Hjortshoj

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.