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Connecting the dots: writing a doctoral thesis by publication
Get PDFPushed along by pressures in academia to publish research outcomes, the “thesis by publication” is becoming more common in Australia and elsewhere. While we know a little about the experience of publishing alongside or from the thesis, less is understood about the thesis-by-publication format and its value or otherwise. This chapter explores the research literacies that are developed through writing a thesis by publication, attempting to connect the dots between students’ prior experiences of “publication” in digital forms and their academic research environment. Focus groups of doctoral candidates who had some experience of writing a thesis by publication were conducted at an Australian university, and the results set alongside the learning theory of “connectivism” (Siemens, 2004). It is proposed that familiarity with digital forms of creating and publishing knowledge in the twenty-first century might mean that today’s doctoral candidates are more attuned than their predecessors to the idea of publishing their research. This in turn links to the participants’ sense of their emerging scholarly and researcher identities.Cally Gueri
The gift of writing groups: Critique, community and confidence
No full textA key benefit of participation in doctoral writing groups is that members become more ‘confident’ in their scholarly identities, particularly when members critique each others' work. Such groups are spaces that privilege collaborative practices and peer learning as members provide each other with reciprocal feedback on their writing. This chapter explores the feedback offered in writing groups through the lens of gift exchange to consider how membership in a writing group develops important ties of mutual responsibility, reciprocity and trust, all of which contribute to members’ sense of belonging to the academic community and consequently build confidence in their scholarly work and identities.Cally Gueri
Writing groups, pedagogy, theory and practice: an introduction
No full textClaire Aitchison and Cally Gueri
Learning to research in the Professions: possibilities of discovery learning
No full textMichelle Picard and Cally Gueri
Learning to research, researching to learn
No full textCally Guerin, Paul Bartholomew and Claus Nygaar
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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