Mentoring and Co-Writing for Research Publication Purposes addresses a
major gap in our knowledge of how doctoral supervision relationships in
the sciences are enacted as writing pedagogy. Based on a multiple-case
study of three student-supervisor pairs in environmental sciences,
neurosciences and biochemistry as they each prepared a research article
for publication, this book offers a finely grained and studied analysis
of the role of joint authorship in scaffolding research writing
development in the sciences. This book:
- Critically engages with a range of approaches to studying doctoral
education and writing practices.
- Formulates a wide-lens methodology to capture, analyse and interpret
the multimodal interactions between co-authors and their evolving text.
- Describes writing-oriented supervision meetings in terms of their
social and spatial configurations and analyses the roles of supervisor
and student vis-à-vis each other and their evolving text.
- Builds theory on how supervisors enculturate their students into the
intricate social negotiations at the heart of academic peer review.
- Describes how certain genre conventions and textual patterns both
emerge from and contribute to the observed writing practices.
Paving the way for future research into co-authoring practices by
supervisors and students in postgraduate settings, Mentoring and
Co-Writing for Research Publication Purposes is a valuable resource for
researchers and advanced students interested in doctoral supervision and
writing for research publication purposes.
