Writing a master’s dissertation: students’ perspectives
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Resumo: | Students are expected to write complex text genres in higher education contexts. Such complexity stems not only from the nature of the knowledge they convey but also from the norms and conventions adopted by the academic communities that use such texts. Among those genres, the dissertation seems particularly complex, considering both the set of problems related to its configuration (structure, language, norms of reference), and the factors that constrain its production (methodological procedures, student/supervisor relationship, time management, institutional constraints, individual nature of the writing process). The present study seeks to identify and analyze (i) students’ perspectives and representations of the dissertation writing process, and (ii) the problems that arise in the writing process. It is based on semi-structured interviews with students, at three different universities in the North of Portugal, who recently completed their dissertations in Humanities, Education and Engineering. The analysis is based on the assumption that writing a dissertation involves not only cognitive, linguistic and social dimensions, but also emotional aspects that can condition it decisively. |
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Writing a master’s dissertation: students’ perspectives |
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Writing a master’s dissertation: students’ perspectives |
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Writing a master’s dissertation: students’ perspectives Carvalho, José António Brandão Academic writing Dissertation writing Supervision Genre Student writing Affect Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Educação |
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Writing a master’s dissertation: students’ perspectives |
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Writing a master’s dissertation: students’ perspectives |
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Carvalho, José António Brandão |
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Carvalho, José António Brandão Pereira, Luísa Álvares Laranjeira, Rómina Mello |
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Pereira, Luísa Álvares Laranjeira, Rómina Mello |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Carvalho, José António Brandão Pereira, Luísa Álvares Laranjeira, Rómina Mello |
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Academic writing Dissertation writing Supervision Genre Student writing Affect Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Educação |
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Academic writing Dissertation writing Supervision Genre Student writing Affect Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Educação |
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Students are expected to write complex text genres in higher education contexts. Such complexity stems not only from the nature of the knowledge they convey but also from the norms and conventions adopted by the academic communities that use such texts. Among those genres, the dissertation seems particularly complex, considering both the set of problems related to its configuration (structure, language, norms of reference), and the factors that constrain its production (methodological procedures, student/supervisor relationship, time management, institutional constraints, individual nature of the writing process). The present study seeks to identify and analyze (i) students’ perspectives and representations of the dissertation writing process, and (ii) the problems that arise in the writing process. It is based on semi-structured interviews with students, at three different universities in the North of Portugal, who recently completed their dissertations in Humanities, Education and Engineering. The analysis is based on the assumption that writing a dissertation involves not only cognitive, linguistic and social dimensions, but also emotional aspects that can condition it decisively. |
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