Developing scholarly identity: Variation in agentive responses to supervisor feedback

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Inouye, Kelsey S ^a   McAlpine, Lynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agency; Doctoral education; Doctoral writing; Feedback; Scholarly identity; Supervision

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026920764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14499789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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