ABSTRACT

This article describes the effects of sequential non-residential writing retreats on graduate students the development of sustainable writing practices in the latter stages of writing theses and dissertations. Our study looks to understand how graduate students implement techniques of academic writing productivity. We collected data from three short, non-residential graduate student writing retreats in 2017. The retreats were hosted by a research support programme at a large public university in the United States (U.S.). We used a qualitative case study design and employed grounded theory. We analysed participant responses on exit evaluations and in interviews about their experiences in one or more retreats. Graduate students who participated in more than one retreat within a year expressed feelings of greater writing confidence and productivity, thus, exhibiting of the value of non-residential retreats to student thesis and dissertation writing processes. We found many graduate students have difficulty post-retreat maintaining writing habits. Our findings concur with existing studies about the benefits of retreats for academic writing productivity and expand on those studies to note that graduate student researchers can benefit from attending multiple retreats to build and sustain a regular writing practice among their campus community of writers.

摘要

本文描述了连续非住宅写作静修对研究生论文和学位论文后期可持续写作实践发展的影响。我们的研究旨在了解研究生如何实施学术写作效率的技巧。我们从 2017 年的三个短期非住宿研究生写作静修中收集了数据。这些静修由美国（美国）一所大型公立大学的研究支持计划主办。我们使用了定性案例研究设计并采用了扎根理论。我们分析了参与者对退出评估的反应以及他们在一次或多次静修中的经历的访谈。一年内参加过多次静修的研究生表达了写作信心和生产力更高的感觉，因此，展示了非住宿静修对学生论文和论文写作过程的价值。我们发现许多研究生在退修后很难保持写作习惯。我们的发现与现有关于静修对学术写作效率的好处的研究一致，并扩展了这些研究，以指出研究生研究人员可以从参加多次静修中受益，以在他们的校园作家社区中建立和维持定期的写作实践。