Anguish and anxiety, stress and strain: Attending to writers’ stress in the dissertation process

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 43, Issue , 2019, Pages 63-71

  Russell Pinson, Lisa ^a   Harris, M Lynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissertation process; Dissertation support group; Doctoral writing; International doctoral student; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035791351     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2017.11.005     Document Type: Article

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