A funny - as in strange thing happened on my way to writing the address for this symposium. I noticed schizophrenic nature of undertaking. Not only was going be talking about creative higher degree theses that demonstrated a kind split personality, but I, too, had multiple personalties, which is probably reason invited speak you. am writer, an academic, teacher, supervisor, examiner, and also President Australian Association Writing Programs…

Multitasking supervisor-trainers who oversee the hybrid creative writing thesis have to be as informed and proactive those guiding careers of elite athletes. They function manager, coach trainer all in one. These roles are complicated by multiplicity theoretical structural pathways available shape thesis. Since each new project poses challenges, how candidates supervisors respond has moved discipline forward, helping define what kind knowledge it can produce well skills foster. There cannot...

Abstract The creative arts disciplines constitute an important growth area for research higher degrees (HDR), and in recent decades they have built a body of knowledge set practices associated with them. There is little empirical work, however, which investigates how examiners theses arrive at the commentary presented their reports. This essay debates key issues around examination doctoral writing. Drawing on extensive experience supervising examining doctorates UK Australia, authors address...

What exact relationship does thecritical “dissertation”, “exegesis” or “critical annotation” (terms vary) have to the creative work? How much weight should each carry? exactly “of publishable quality” mean at end of 1990s? This paper will examine, therefore, a range issues from point view supervisors and assessors BA Hons, MAs PhDs. If as writers, academics teachers, we want our students embark on their theses with confidence, try bring logic uniformity, well bit flair, into current...

The title of this paper is meant to be problematic. Why should we have prove the value what Australian writer-academics and their students produce? What kind cultural capital writing? DETYA (Department Education, Training YouthAffairs) has only just begun acknowledging (for 2001) a narrow range creative material as work worthy research credit…

Assessment is of prime concern to students and their teachers. Marks affect psychologically; the by-now cliched concept self-esteem has been used in some quarters justify grade inflation. More point, our “clever country,” know that what appears on transcript might determine whether they are granted a job interview. To complicate matters, teachers sceptical century have found assessment many arts subjects problematic, especially those where quality argument expression itself issues. In...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. Creative writing here also implies professional writing. Each institution has its own administrative or pedagogical structures for dealing with what can be a complex relationship. Many AAWP members, however, have taught are still teaching as well creative writing, and issues significant both areas overlap. With focus on ‘writing’, the always included those whose emphasis been 2. An online support network postgraduate students in their...

Creative writing doctoral students and the faculty members responsible for thesis supervision (whether we call them supervisors, mentors or supervisory panels) develop a complex relationship over course of candidature that revolves around multiple types text. The form these texts take stage at which they are produced determine nature feedback, illuminating intertwined processes leading to finished product—the creative thesis. Some critics have postulated postgraduate courses taken much...

The writing discipline in the 21st century is a territory with contested boundaries. This paper focuses on creative for simplicity and considers how we might write across beyond boundaries between genres, disciplines audiences. It postulates that exploiting concept of research as fluid multifaceted enriches discipline’s study practice at all levels. Research about understanding what established pathways have been followed or new methods, tools entry points researchers discovered to negotiate...

This paper investigates the complex identity of teacher-writers by considering nature some jobs that they perform in academy, which make them ‘teachers,’ ‘supervisors’ and ‘mentors’ as well ascreative practitioners. These identities impact on a writer’s ability to produce because require sustained intense interaction with students. What happens who can find no time write? Does this state affairs affect not only their stagnating CVs, but functioning academy well?

The Western writing craft workshop has been dominated by a narrow conception of ‘reading as writer.’ An overview Creative Writing discipline in Australia and China suggests that broader writer’ would enrich teaching both the Anglophone countries Asia while it improves expression enhances cultural understanding. A comparison courses focus on nonfiction at Flinders University Sun Yat-sen demonstrates how reading takes into account variety subject aims outcomes reflects diverse experiences can...

Abstract In the contemporary academy, authors have been resurrected in multiple incarnations. They are at once writers, editors, mentors, critics and examiners, for example, cognisant of problematic nature author text. particular, history creative writing as a discipline Australia has fostered series adaptations to traditional research paradigms that resulted range authorial positions higher degree theses (MAs PhDs). Produced by student-writers supervised examined author–academics, they...

Creative arts’ examiners have multiple identities compared to their traditional academic colleagues. They are at once scholars, reviewers, critics, judges and mentors as they negotiate way through the plural discourses that creative arts thesis has become. The manner in which perform tasks can influence both novices’ career prospects literary culture general. At same time, remain guardians of establishment, accreditors who decide whether a higher degree should be awarded. Since writing is...

Gillian Mears’ Foal’s Bread (2011) is an award-winning Australian novel that broadens ways of conceptualising the relationship between humans and horses through metaphor, with attention to nurturing or abuse both horses. ‘Therapeutic metaphors’ in Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) suggest how horse-human bond can act as a catalyst promote healing from sexual domestic violence. Little research has identified this rhetorical link. Concepts such hybridity, melding identities, embodied...

In the twenty-first century, research higher degree students in Australia do more than simply (DIISR 2011a:24, ACER 2011). They might teach or be employed as assistants administrators. These jobs prepare RHD (aka HDR) for transition to workforce; they inhabit, therefore, multiple identities. Supervisors century also face challenge of act employers well mentors induct their cohort into a discipline’s professional life. Mentorship, we argue, is not same supervision. The mentorship role...