Helping Doctoral Students Establish Long-Term Identities as Technical Communication Scholars

Autor/inn/en	Grant-Davie, Keith; Matheson, Breeanne; Stephens, Eric James
Titel	Helping Doctoral Students Establish Long-Term Identities as Technical Communication Scholars
Quelle	In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 47 (2017) 2, S.151-171 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2816
DOI	10.1177/0047281617692071
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Professional Identity; Technical Writing; Scholarship; Career Education; Job Skills; Research Problems; Research Methodology; Student Characteristics; Self Concept; Professional Development; Knowledge Management; Career Choice; Personality Traits + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Technical documentation; Technische Dokumentation; Scholarships; Stipendium; Arbeitslehre; Produktive Fertigkeit; Forschungskritik; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Selbstkonzept; Wissensmanagement; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	This article aims to help doctoral students in technical communication prepare themselves for the academic job market and for the subsequent process of earning tenure and promotion in increasingly demanding environments. The authors propose that students do four things: (a) learn to spot and articulate research problems; (b) find their vocation--the work to which they feel a personal calling--within technical communication; (c) identify the research methods that best suit their personalities; and (d) articulate a research identity and agenda that they can explain at three different levels of abstraction: describing individual projects, naming the coherent themes that connect these projects, and defining themselves concisely as scholars. All these orienting practices involve students in stepping back, looking for larger patterns in their work and in their professional interests, and finding specific language to represent them. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01