'Tough love and tears': Learning doctoral writing in the sciences

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 435-447

  Aitchison, Claire ^a   Catterall, Janice ^a   Ross, Pauline ^a   Burgin, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

doctoral pedagogies; doctoral supervision; doctoral writing; scientific writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864621155     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2011.559195     Document Type: Article

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