A new article in University Affairs highlights the pervasive deficit model that many faculty at universities implicitly buy into when it comes to graduate student failure.
You can find the article here:
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Beginnings
Welcome to this blog! This space will be devoted to academic writing, particularly research writing. Most people writing a long research document or a research article for a journal find themselves getting stuck at some point. I know better than anyone how demoralising that can be. The purpose of this blog is to provide you with a place to go to while you are ‘procrastinating’. Here (hopefully) you will find something that will get you going again.
I’ve spent a good part of my life working with post/graduate students and new academics on research and writing. Three books have resulted from all that experience. I firmly believe in creative activities to jump-start any lagging writer. I intend these pages to be full of useful, practical information about writing, research, conceptualising research, research methodologies, and creative (thinking and writing) activities.
Although I am still setting up the blog pages, I will begin posting.
Cecile Badenhorst 