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Writing Toward Expert: The Writing Center's Role in the Development of Graduate Writers

Lee, Yvonne Renee
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586373161616433

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2020, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Researchers of graduate student success have recently begun engaging in studies aimed at establishing a better understanding of what practices best assist in graduate student retention and degree completion. Simultaneously, Writing Center scholars have been making a concerted effort to undertake empirical research focused on the everyday work of the Center. This dissertation uses a mixed-methods study design to uncover intersections and disconnects between what graduate student writers report they do, what graduate student writers actually do, what advisors believe graduate student writers do, and how writing centers can develop practices and programs that best fit the multidimensional experiences of graduate student writers. Graduate writers are currently underrepresented in Writing Center and Writing Studies scholarship. This dissertation provides a glimpse into the working lives and lived experiences of graduate writers through the use of national surveys of graduate writers, graduate advisors, and writing center practitioners and through in-depth observations and individual interviews. Collected data show that graduate students and graduate advisors believe writing center spaces are designed primarily to assist undergraduate students, a belief that is supported by actual practices of writing center practitioners. This research will be beneficial for writing scholars and practitioners wishing to continue to offer innovative, intentional, research-based support for writers across the spectrum. This study will expand current understandings of the actual and perceived experiences of graduate writers, knowledge that will be foundational to future practices and research that can aid in the continual growth and development of Writing Center and Writing Studies theory and practice.
Pamela Takayoshi, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Brian Huot, Dr. (Committee Member)
Jay Sloan, Dr. (Committee Member)
John Dunlosky, Dr. (Committee Member)
Walter Gershon, Dr. (Committee Member)
170 p.
Communication; Composition; Rhetoric
writing centers; graduate writers; advising graduate writers; writing support

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  • Lee, Y. R. (2020). Writing Toward Expert: The Writing Center's Role in the Development of Graduate Writers [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586373161616433

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lee, Yvonne. Writing Toward Expert: The Writing Center's Role in the Development of Graduate Writers. 2020. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586373161616433.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lee, Yvonne. "Writing Toward Expert: The Writing Center's Role in the Development of Graduate Writers." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586373161616433

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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