Purpose: This paper aims to examine how doctoral students in education and applied linguistics fields successfully navigated graduate writing demands by participating in a support community that catalyzed writing productivity, peer mentoring and feedback. Guiding graduate students' writing processes based on scholarly interests and providing peer…

Examines the concept of essentialism--that meaning resides "in words" rather than being assigned to them--and suggests that essentialism as a philosophy leads to intolerance, conceit, and eventually war. A few sources of essentialism are identified and skepticism is voiced about the possibility of educating against essentialism in the…