Writing groups for doctoral education and beyond : innovations in practice and theory / edited by Claire Aitchison and Cally Guerin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Writing groups, pedagogy, theory and practice: an introduction / by Claire Aitchison (University of Western Sydney) and Cally Guerin (University of Adelaide) -- 2. Writing together, for many reasons: theoretical and historical perspectives / by Anthony Pare (McGill University, Canada) -- 3. Pick-n-Mix: a typology of writers' by groups / by Sarah Haas (University of Ghent, Belgium) -- 4. Learning from multiple voices: feedback and authority in doctoral writing groups / by Claire Aitchison (University of Western Sydney, Australia) -- 5. Writing groups as critical spaces for engaging normalized institutional cultures of writing in doctoral education / Doreen Starke-Meyerring -- 6. Transparent transactions: when doctoral students and their supervisors write together / Michelle Maher -- 7. Doctoral students create new spaces to write / by Rowena Murray (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) -- 8. Walking the labyrinth: the holding embrace of academic writing retreats / Sally S. Knowles -- 9. The gift of writing groups: critique, community and confidence / Cally Guerin -- 10. Scaffolding the thesis writing process: an ongoing writing group for international research students / Linda Li -- 11. 'If they're not laughing, watch out!': emotion and risk in postgraduate writers' circles / by Lucia Thesen (University of Cape Town, South Africa) -- 12. A weekly dose of applause!: connectedness and playfulness in the 'Thesis Marathon' / by Judith Wolfsberger (The writers' studio, Austria) -- 13. The studio model: developing community writing in creative, practice-led PhD design theses / Welby Ings -- 14. An intimate circle: reflections on writing as women in higher education / by Agnes Bosanquet, Jayde Cahir, Elaine Huber, Christa Jacenyik-Trawoger and Margot McNeill (Macquarie University, Australia) -- 15. Shut up and write!: some surprising uses of cafes and crowds in doctoral writing / by Inger Mewburn, Lindy Osborne, Glenda Caldwell.

"Writing is the principal means by which doctoral candidature is monitored and measured; this, combined with the growing tendency to use publications as proxy measures of individual and institutional productivity, underlines the centrality of writing in academia. One of the central questions for scholars in higher education, therefore, is 'How do we make writing happen?', and it is this question which the book seeks to answer."-- Provided by publisher.