| Publication type: | Conference other |
| Type of review: | No review |
| Title: | Digital provisions for undergraduate proposal writing : securing conceptual alignment between writer and supervisor when using Thesis Writer |
| Authors: | Rapp, Christian Kruse, Otto |
| et. al: | No |
| Conference details: | 11th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), online, 7-8 July 2021 |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 808: Rhetoric and writing |
| Abstract: | Several new digital tools are devoted to supporting thesis writers. Whilst doctoral thesis writing is a well-studied issue, much less is known about thesis writing within shorter Continental European 3-year undergraduate programmes. To equally study and support thesis writing, we created Thesis Writer (TW), a bilingual (English/German) genre-sensitive tool that offers dissertation writers a word processor with additional support at the conceptual, rhetorical, structural, and organisational level, as well as collaborative writing and feedback functionality. The aim of this presentation is to provide both illustrative data and a synthesis of TW’s affordances in structuring student/supervisor interaction when setting up the first thesis project. One practical concern of high significance is the reaction of supervisors to the tool, as it is essential that supervisors not only accept the tool and its philosophy, but that they actively integrate it into their supervision practices. Preliminary observations have shown that they are creative in cultivating their own ways of using TW when developing a thesis structure. In a case study of ten students at a Swiss University, we observed writer-supervisor interactions during their initial and first follow-up BA thesis meetings, each lasting 60-90 minutes. The meetings were conducted and recorded virtually, to determine how they came to an agreement about the topic, and how they ensured that they both understood it in the same way. This kind of “conceptual alignment” involves negotiated intentions and expectations on both sides when creating a basic proposal structure supported by TW. In adjacent qualitative interviews, students and supervisors were asked about their experiences with this procedure and about their reactions to TW. The results show a broad range of interaction patterns and considerable divergence in the way TW is used. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22986 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (ZID) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Rapp, C., & Kruse, O. (2021). Digital provisions for undergraduate proposal writing : securing conceptual alignment between writer and supervisor when using Thesis Writer. 11th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Online, 7-8 July 2021.
Rapp, C. and Kruse, O. (2021) ‘Digital provisions for undergraduate proposal writing : securing conceptual alignment between writer and supervisor when using Thesis Writer’, in 11th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), online, 7-8 July 2021.
C. Rapp and O. Kruse, “Digital provisions for undergraduate proposal writing : securing conceptual alignment between writer and supervisor when using Thesis Writer,” in 11th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), online, 7-8 July 2021, 2021.
RAPP, Christian und Otto KRUSE, 2021. Digital provisions for undergraduate proposal writing : securing conceptual alignment between writer and supervisor when using Thesis Writer. In: 11th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), online, 7-8 July 2021. Conference presentation. 2021
Rapp, Christian, and Otto Kruse. 2021. “Digital Provisions for Undergraduate Proposal Writing : Securing Conceptual Alignment between Writer and Supervisor When Using Thesis Writer.” Conference presentation. In 11th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Online, 7-8 July 2021.
Rapp, Christian, and Otto Kruse. “Digital Provisions for Undergraduate Proposal Writing : Securing Conceptual Alignment between Writer and Supervisor When Using Thesis Writer.” 11th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Online, 7-8 July 2021, 2021.
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