A non‐residential alternative to off campus writers’ retreats for academics

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-239

  Dickson‐Swift, Virginia ^a   James, Erica L ^b   Kippen, Sandra ^a   Talbot, Lyn ^a   Verrinder, Glenda ^a   Ward, Bernadette ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic publications; Research outputs; Writing retreats

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052580178     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03098770903026156     Document Type: Article

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