Sprinting toward Genre Knowledge: Scaffolding Graduate Communication through 'sprints' in Finance and Engineering

Extending our understanding of unpublished academic writing: The creation and analysis of CorGrad

“…Given the fundamental importance of disciplinary writing at university, programmatic, and individual levels, there is a need to further clarify the requirements of graduate student coursework writing (Ives, Gokhale, Barott, & Perez, 2019). This dissertation is a step in the direction of further disambiguating the features of the wide array of unpublished GSW types in two applied sciences disciplines.…”

“…Besides the individual importance of writing in graduate students' academic preparation and eventual careers, there is an institutional concern related to attrition. necessitates an exploration of the university and disciplinary requirements of GSW (Ives, Gokhale, Barott, & Perez, 2019). The latter two factors are beyond the scope of the present research, but the first factor will be addressed as it relates to the classification of writing.…”

“…This can intensify the challenge such that graduate-level writing is a struggle even for students with a firm grasp of undergraduate writing. Regardless of their background or level of support, graduate students must be able to navigate the world of disciplinary academic writing successfully, meaning they must understand the various writing goals and strategies of both their chosen university and their field (Ives, et al, 2019).…”