TY - JOUR
T1 - Elements of doctoral apprenticeship: community feedback and the acquisition of writing expertise
AU - Zhang, Yan (Olivia)
AU - Hyland, Ken
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Academic writing expertise, we argue, is acquired through long practice and by the mentoring of significant others in a socialisation process which resembles an ‘apprenticeship’. The way that feedback provided to novice writers by community-sanctioned experts can scaffold research writers’ development of texts and their scholarly identities as writers, which, however, has been relatively little studied. In this paper, we examine the interactions around two L2 writers’ engagements with PhD thesis and research article writing at an English medium university. Focusing on the literature review of these genres, we use thematic and intertextual analyses to explore interconnections between apprenticeship patterns, feedback messages, and expertise acquisition. The analyses present feedback as an apprenticeship: a multi-dimensional scaffolding and an interconnected mentorship oriented towards the process of learning and the nurturing of a writerly self.
AB - Academic writing expertise, we argue, is acquired through long practice and by the mentoring of significant others in a socialisation process which resembles an ‘apprenticeship’. The way that feedback provided to novice writers by community-sanctioned experts can scaffold research writers’ development of texts and their scholarly identities as writers, which, however, has been relatively little studied. In this paper, we examine the interactions around two L2 writers’ engagements with PhD thesis and research article writing at an English medium university. Focusing on the literature review of these genres, we use thematic and intertextual analyses to explore interconnections between apprenticeship patterns, feedback messages, and expertise acquisition. The analyses present feedback as an apprenticeship: a multi-dimensional scaffolding and an interconnected mentorship oriented towards the process of learning and the nurturing of a writerly self.
KW - Apprenticeship
KW - Community feedback
KW - Doctoral writing
KW - Expertise
KW - Scaffolding
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111205805&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jslw.2021.100835
DO - 10.1016/j.jslw.2021.100835
M3 - Article
SN - 1060-3743
VL - 53
JO - Journal of Second Language Writing
JF - Journal of Second Language Writing
M1 - 100835
ER -