One of the skills of graduate education that is most central to the evaluation of students is
their ability to read and report on complex disciplinary texts. The display of comprehension is …

Using a case study approach, this research investigated the intersection between citation
use and identity construction by examining, as examples of advanced academic literacy …

Benjamin De Mott once wrote," No novel of acad-eme has ever produced a believable
prof"(1962, p. 245). Times have changed. Within the last few years some of our most …

The ability to comprehend, discuss, and use disciplinary texts is central to graduate
education. Although techniques for teaching writing have been well-discussed, and even …

Faculty in higher education invest many years preparing to become professors. The
emphasis during graduate school is on mastering specialized subject matter, acquiring the …

What does it mean to be a graduate student and to do graduate school? What happens
when we shift our focus away from learning as a process of gaining expertise in a field or …

Our academic identities are constructed performatively through writing. In this article, I use
the concept of citationality to examine two literacy autobiographies: one by a published …

Most institutions of higher education presume that the pursuit of truth is central to their
missions. However, the status of truth has been seriously challenged in contemporary …

This paper dives into the complicated work of publishing while working on a doctoral
dissertation. Although the author recognizes the dissertation as being a capstone synthesis …

This work discusses articles versus monographs as routes toward the doctoral degree and
the challenges of writing within these formats. Two stories are presented from candidates …