Recent studies have argued for an understanding of voice in academic writing that goes beyond the expression of a ’personal’ voice to include writers’ sociohistorically-shaped and dialogically-negotiated agency. While several studies adopt this more expansive conception of voice, very few are situated within a pedagogical context. This study investigates thesis writing groups offered by a learning centre at an Australian university to better understand their role in assisting students’ voice construction. Each group consists of five students and a facilitator; during group meetings members exchange oral feedback on one another’s writing. The participants were twelve postgraduate students and data were collected through observation and audiorecordings of group conferences, student and facilitator interviews and students’ drafts and revisions. Adopting activity systems analysis (Engeström, 2001), we focused on the writing conferences and the revising activity. The study suggests that writing conferences facilitate the inter-psychological and intra-psychological processes of voice construction. In the writing conference, students’ social worlds intersect, bringing to bear the power and social structure, value systems and ideologies of scholarly writing. Revising is construed as a multivoiced activity that enables the writer to construct their own voice. The findings also suggest principles of designing social interactions for voice construction.

最近的研究认为，对学术写作中的声音的理解超出了“个人”声音的表达范围，而包括了作家的社会历史形态和对话式代理机构。尽管有几项研究采用了这种更广泛的语音概念，但很少有研究涉及教学语言。这项研究调查了澳大利亚大学学习中心提供的论文写作小组，以更好地了解他们在帮助学生发声方面的作用。每个小组由五名学生和一名辅导员组成；在小组会议期间，成员交换彼此的口头反馈。参加者为十二名研究生，并通过小组会议的观察和录音，学生和主持人的访谈以及学生的草稿和修订本收集了数据。通过活动系统分析（Engeström，2001年），我们专注于写作会议和修订活动。研究表明，写作会议促进了声音构建的跨心理学和跨心理学过程。在写作会议上，学生的社会世界相交，带来了学术写作的力量和社会结构，价值体系和意识形态。修订被认为是一种多声活动，使作者能够构建自己的声音。研究结果还提出了设计语音交互的社交互动的原则。研究表明，写作会议促进了声音构建的跨心理学和跨心理学过程。在写作会议上，学生的社会世界相交，带来了学术写作的力量和社会结构，价值体系和意识形态。修订被认为是一种多声活动，使作者能够构建自己的声音。研究结果还提出了设计语音交互的社交互动的原则。研究表明，写作会议促进了声音构建的跨心理学和跨心理学过程。在写作会议上，学生的社会世界相交，带来了学术写作的力量和社会结构，价值体系和意识形态。修订被认为是一种多声活动，使作者能够构建自己的声音。研究结果还提出了设计语音交互的社交互动的原则。