Description: This book examines the student experience of thesis writing through an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on theories of learning, emotions, and genre and narrative/discursive analysis. Through innovative research methods and a unique transnational collaborative research project the thesis is reconceptualised as a multilayered experience from the point of view of student writers.
Brief description:
Bojana Petric is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck, the University of London, UK. Her research interests include multilingual writers' academic literacy practices and experiences, particularly their citation practices, source use, writer voice, disciplinary socialisation and interdisciplinarity.
Review Quotes:
Many BA and MA degree programmes do not provide adequate training and research supervisors may struggle to teach students all that is required at this level. In this timely and much-needed volume, the authors enable insight into supervisees' experiences of the research process, with particular attention to the epistemological, methodological and emotional challenges related to becoming an early career researcher.
-- "Louisa Buckingham, University of Auckland, New Zealand"