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Jackie Tuck – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2025
Purpose: This paper aims to show how an Academic Literacies lens can contribute to a deeper understanding of writing for a professional doctorate (PD) by focusing both on the language of supervisors' written feedback and on student and supervisor perspectives on feedback throughout Year 1 (Y1). Design/methodology/approach: Firstly, written…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Writing Evaluation
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Uba, Sani Yantandu; Irudayasamy, Julius; Hankins, Carmel Antonette – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This paper investigates the use of stance linguistic features in accounting Ph.D. theses in a Nigerian university. We adopted a mixed-methods approach by combining a textual analysis of the theses and explored the context of writing of the participants similar to Swale's textography approach. We compiled three corpora: Bayero University corpus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations
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Andrews, Jane; Fay, Richard – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
This article explores some implications of plurilingualism and translingual practice for teaching and learning in higher education. Research in this area tends to focus on the undergraduate experience whereas our focus is on doctoral supervision, a less-discussed but rich site for studying plurilingual and translingual practice. We consider…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes