Cecile Badenhorst MA (UBC), PhD (Queen’s) is an Associate Professor in the Adult Education/Post-Secondary program in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University. Her research interests are post-secondary and adult learning experiences particularly graduate research writing and academic literacies. She has written three books in this area: Research Writing (2007), Dissertation Writing (2008) and Productive Writing (2010). Prior to Memorial, Cecile taught, for ten years, on a graduate program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Cecile Badenhorst 
Dear Professor Badenhorst,
My name is Françoise Moreau-Johnson and I am the manager of the Centre for Academic Leadership at the University of Ottawa.
I met a former student of yours (Laurie Prange-Martin) during Congress last month at a session on academic writing I organized as part of Career Corner. She recommended a couple of your books which I would like to purchase, but I’m having great difficulty getting my hands on them. I have looked at purchasing them through Amazon and through the University of Ottawa Library without success. I would like to get a copy of
– Productive Writing: Becoming a prolific writer
– Research Writing: Breaking the barriers
Do you, by any chance, keep copies yourself which you can ship out or do they have to come from South Africa?
Thank you, Françoise Moreau-Johnson
Hi Francoise, send me an email on cbadenhorst@mun.ca
Cecile
Hi Prof. Badenhorst,
I am just dropping a line here to thank you for your blog and youtube channel, they have been extremely useful for me. I really appreciate how articulate and exhaustive your explanations are.
Hi Cecile
Loving your work in academic writing. Some of the challlenges I had in ademic writing is only now being understood as a result of your advise in this area.
Can you say how to purchase copies of your publications
Regards
McClean Hobson
Hi Cecile,
I’m having major writer’s block. I received negative feedback on one of my dissertation chapters and I have not been able to write in four days. I did that activity about wrting how I feel when I get negative feedback. I wrote out some of the emotions. Now that I’ve looked over what I wrote, it really is about my lack of confidence with my writing style. It’s not academic enough.. Do you have any advice on how to write “academically” if you’re not an academic? Apparently I’m not describing my results and discussion sections well enough. I’m in a professional doctoral program in public health and I’m a health care provider by training and work with patients day to day. Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Thank you,
Monica
I’ll email you with a reply.
Cecile
Cecile I just want to say thank you for the you tube videos! They were truly helpful and the one place I could go to that was clear, concise and full of useful structure. Many thanks.
Thivashni ( PHD student in education at the University of Wolverhampton UK)
Wonderful – I’m glad you are finding them useful!
Dear Cecile
It was so lovely to stumble upon you on You Tube and hear a South African accent.
I lecture at various business schools and universities in Johannesburg and am doing some post grad work.
Your explanations are logical and very practical.
You are helping me immensely with my studies and I have recommended you as a very useful source to my students.
Thank you for your help, it is much appreciated.
Kind regards
Adrienne Berkowitz
So glad the videos are helpful, Adrienne!
Have just read or listed to some of moving ideas of research proposals and the rest. This is fantastic, I wish had this earlier space but still better late than never. Am challenged to come up with a SMART Topic for my specialization on MBA _Project Management and wish to look at Project Management and Leadership, soon to be submitted
Any help with some key points or notes
Highly appreciate
I’ll be adding more resources to the blog shortly but in the meantime, search “Cecile Badenhorst” on YouTube to see the videos available. Begin with the series on the research proposal. Also watch the videos on developing a PPS&Q.
Dear Cecile,
My co-supervisor commented that my writing is not at a doctoral level……….what does this mean?
It’s hard to say but it probably means one of several things: 1) Your writing isn’t analytical enough and is more focused on summary and repeating information you’ve read (see my YouTube video on From Descriptive to Critical writing). 2) It could also mean that you are only showing one point of view which is usually our own. Scholarly writing usually acknolwedges that there are more points of view than our own (see my YouTube video on Argument). 3) It could mean that your writing is not theoretically grounded (see my YouTube video on Conceptual Frameworks). If you watch these videos, you should be able to figure it out. Or else ask your co-suprvisor what s/he means and to give you examples of doctoral writing.
Hello!
I am a director of a doctoral program and have found your discussion (via YouTube) on conceptual frameworks very helpful! You define a conceptual framework as part paradigm, part theory, and part research that uses that theory. That really helped me visualize what has been difficult to convey to novice doctoral researchers. I want to use your definition in our definition of conceptual framework and am wondering how you’d prefer we cite you. Did the info in this video come from one of your texts?
HI Amy – no it comes from teaching graduate students from different disciplines. I guess you would cite the video. If you would like to talk further, email me at cbadenhorst@mun.ca
Hi Cecile
Thank you for the videos! I’m a fellow South African working in Hong Kong with undergraduate students who are undertaking their first research projects. Your videos have been so helpful in terms of making information accessible and, possibly more importantly, in motivating me to start thinking about my own PhD (again)! Thank you!
Please keep them coming….
Warm regards, Mary Ann
Hi Mary Ann – lovely to hear from a fellow South African! If you’d like the full list of videos, email me on cbadenhorst@mun.ca
Hi Cecile
I have just listened to your video on Literature Review. It is useful to a novice. Enkosi kakhulu.
Hi Cecile
I just listened to your youtube video on Literature Review. Happy to have heard you said that it is ok to seek help from others especially more learned people. I am a graduate student and would like to understand how to critically analyze articles as well as write Literature Reviews. I become agitated after spending hours trying to critique an article and them I just shut down. My assignments are late because of this issue. Also, is there a website I might go to to familiarize myself with the language of academic writers?
Email me at cbadenhorst@mun.ca and I’ll point you to some sources.
Dear Professor Badenhorst,
My name is Nura Masood from Tanzania.
I came across your YouTube video which I find very helpful to me. I have difficulty writing a research assignment for my associate papers.
I would like to purchase your book to help on research what would be the easier and convenient way to get from Tanzania.
Kind regards.
Hello Dr Cecile,
Keep up the good work. Your podcasts have provided me with valuable guidance on how to write my Doctoral Thesis with the University of Zambia.
Besa Chimbaka
Lusaka-Zambia
Thank you!!
I watch and learn a lot from your YouTube lectures. Your video lectures, particularly on writing literature reviews, are fantastic. Great job. Keep it up!