Demystifying the Dissertation

Cardozo, Karen M.

doi:10.1632/prof.2006.2006.1.138

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“…That said, prior research has focused on general features of adviser-advisee relationships (Benmore 2016; Lee 2008; Taylor et al 2018; Zhao, Golde, and McCormick 2007), emphasizing their central role in academic socialization (Delamont et al 2000; Leahey 2006). A large body of work (e.g., Bargar and Mayo-Chamberlain 1983; Cardozo 2006; Delamont, Atkinson, and Parry 2004) is prescriptive (and at times autobiographical), including a special edition of the American Sociologist dedicated to informal professionalization in sociology (Shulman and Silver 2005).…”

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The Duality of Students and Faculty: Illustrating the Sociological Utility of Doctoral Committee Data

Lewis

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2020

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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In the context of growing interest in social networks and the sociology of graduate education, the authors examine a relational feature of postbaccalaureate study that has received particularly little attention: the doctoral committee. Data on committee memberships speak to multiple theoretical issues and are presumably maintained by most doctorate-granting institutions, yet this information is seldom aggregated or analyzed. Here, the authors draw on records from the University of California, San Diego to illustrate the utility of doctoral committee data for four areas of sociological inquiry: interdisciplinary knowledge production, departmental community, inequality in the workplace division of labor, and variation in student outcomes. For each, the authors present core findings, discuss their implications, and suggest directions for future research.

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The Duality of Students and Faculty: Illustrating the Sociological Utility of Doctoral Committee Data

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2020

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“…In "Demystifying the Dissertation" KarenCardozo (2006) outlines strategies for building into graduate programs support for graduate student writers.…”

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Snapshots, Surveys, and Infrastructures: An Institutional Case Study of Graduate Writing Courses

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2020

Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines: Identifying, Teaching, and Supporting

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This project has been part of our lives for a long time. It began in 2011 when all the editors were working at the Michigan State University (MSU) Writing Center, Trixie Smith as the director and the rest of us as graduate students. Every day we found ourselves grappling with issues and ideas connected to graduate writers through our work at the writing center: working one-to-one with graduate writers, facilitating graduate writing groups, and offering workshops for graduate students, such as our Navigating the Ph.D. workshop series. The work was also personally relevant to most of us since we were graduate students at the time, frequently finding ourselves experiencing imposter syndrome and letting our identities as graduate students consume our lives. Little did we-excepting Trixie, perhaps-know then that our interest in graduate writing would intensify when we became junior faculty and found that we still faced many of the same writing-related concerns that we did as graduate students.Our motivations for developing this edited collection on graduate writing across the disciplines began when we turned from interacting with graduate writers to researching graduate writers and graduate writing. When the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at MSU began an initiative to create research clusters that bring faculty, staff, and students together to engage in conducting academic research and developing publications, we decided that a research cluster focusing on graduate writing would be ideal. We participated in this Graduate Writing Research Cluster for the two years that we were all still at MSU and continued to collaborate when we began moving into faculty positions outside of MSU. Our collaboration culminated in a special issue of Across the Disciplines and this edited collection. What

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“…One striking finding from her research into graduate student attrition is the fact that, "completers were almost twice as likely as non-completers to have shared an office" with another graduate student (p. 125) 16. In "Demystifying the Dissertation" KarenCardozo (2006) outlines strategies for building into graduate programs support for graduate student writers.…”

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Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines: Identifying, Teaching, and Supporting

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Demystifying the Dissertation

Cited by 74 publications

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The Duality of Students and Faculty: Illustrating the Sociological Utility of Doctoral Committee Data

The Duality of Students and Faculty: Illustrating the Sociological Utility of Doctoral Committee Data

Snapshots, Surveys, and Infrastructures: An Institutional Case Study of Graduate Writing Courses

Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines: Identifying, Teaching, and Supporting

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