Writes Of Passage Research Articles

Writes of passage: writing up qualitative data as a threshold concept in doctoral research

Effective writing is an essential skill for all doctoral students, yet it is one that receives relatively little attention in training and supervision. This article explores extensive feedback from participants in a series of workshops for doctoral candidates engaged with writing up qualitative data. The themes arising from the data analysis are discussed in terms of the affective domain of writing, and the main claim is that writing up qualitative data has been identified as what Meyer and Land would call a threshold concept for doctoral candidates employing qualitative analysis. Drawing on Turner's notion of liminality, the article concludes that interdisciplinary workshops can be instrumental in helping doctoral candidates understand the role of writing, and of writing up qualitative data in particular, in their development into independent, autonomous researchers.

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Writes of Passage: Writing an Empirical Journal Article

This article provides advice about preparing research reports for submission to professional journals in general and Journal of Marriage and Family in particular. In addition to working through all the major parts of a research paper, I provide some general advice about writing, editing, and revising. The article is intended to help new professionals improve the quality of their journal submissions and the likelihood of successful publication.

Writes of Passage: Stylistic features of male and female undergraduate history essays

As a student enters an academic field and seeks to become a member of a discourse community, they must learn to write in ways that are appropriate to that discipline. Academic success depends on determining what the rules are and on learning to follow them. A study of undergraduate writing in history is reported. Essays by 87 students were analysed and sentences were classified according to their bold, tentative or evaluative features. Findings were analysed by gender and by essay grade. They showed that there was more similarity than difference overall in the writing styles of men and women but that, in addition, men tended to use more bold constructions than women. The writing contained a predominance of assertive statements, lending weight to the view that argument is a key feature of academic writing. However, there was a greater occurrence of very assertive or bold statements in work receiving lower grades, which suggests that students must not write too boldly. Similar findings are reported in relation to the use of tentative and evaluative statements, leading to the conclusions that 'good' writing in history is a very finely judged performance and that learning to write history may be a very complex process.

Book Review: Writes of passage: Reading travel writing

Book Review: Writes of passage: Reading travel writing

Writes of Passage: <I>The Cape of Good Hope in Late Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Travel to Asia</I>

The last quarter of the seventeenth century witnessed the publication of a bevy of narratives of travel to India and to Southeast Asia. Many of these were very widely read, and they continued to be cited as authoritative source of knowledge throughout the entire eighteenth century. Very frequently, these narratives included accounts of the Cape of Good Hope, along with descriptions of the Khoi peoples, so-called Hottentots, who lived there. These descriptions, while they have not entirely escaped the attention of scholars (especially South Africans), have largely been wrenched out of their original contexts. This paper will examine several French and English accounts — Tavernier's and Ovington's journeys to the Mughal court of India; Tachard's and La Loubere's missions to the king of Siam; and Dampier's voyage around the world — comparing the portrayal of Africans at the Cape to those of Asians described at greater length throughout these books. Such a comparison yields a more nuanced appreciation of European understanding (and misunderstanding) of non-Europeans, not only in terms of their otherness but also of their differences from one another. In fact, the terms of the contrast of Asians to Africans are highly ambivalent: order vs. anarchy, liberty vs. despotism, or industry vs. sloth, and also dissimulation vs. honesty. Such contrasts defined the parameters of much of the Enlightenment's characterizations of Asians as well as Africans, but also sets the tone for fundamental debates about Europe's own political values.

Conceptualizing/Re-conceptualizing Africa: The Construction of African Historical Identity

Introduction, Maghan Keita I. State and Ethnicity in Precolonial Northern Nigeria, Lamont DeHaven King II. Of Nubians and Nabateans: Implications of Research on Neglected Dimensions of Ancient World History, Jesse Benjamin III. Portuguese Conceptual Categories and the Other: Encounter on the Swahili Coast, Jeremy Prestholdt IV. Writes of Passage: The Cape of Good Hope in Late Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Travel to Asia, Robert Launay V. Taiwan and Africa: Taipei's Continuing Search for International Recognition, Richard J. Payne and Cassandra R. Veney Notes on Contributors Index of Authors Index of Subjects

Book reviews

Books reviewed:Hall, Peter. Cities in civilization. Culture, innovation, and urban orderGottdiener, M., Collins, Claudia C. and Dickens, David R. Las Vegas: the social production of an all‐American cityDuncan, James and Gregory Derek (eds) Writes of passage: reading travel writing

Writes of Passage The Cape of Good Hope in Late Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Travel to Asia

Writes of Passage The Cape of Good Hope in Late Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Travel to Asia

Bookpackers' Writes of Passage

Bookpackers' Writes of Passage

Review: Writes of Passage: Rending Travel Writing

Review: Writes of Passage: Rending Travel Writing

Young Adult Literature: New Writes of Passage

Young Adult Literature: New Writes of Passage