The Dissertation House Model: Doctoral Student Experiences Coping and Writing in a Shared Knowledge Community.

ABSTRACT: The problem of PhD attrition, especially at the dissertation-writing stage, is not solely related to mentoring, departments, or disciplines; it is a problem that affects the entire institution. As such, solutions require collaborative efforts for student success. Building on Yeatman's master-apprentice model, which assumes mastering disciplinary writing in singular advisor-student contexts, and Burnett's collaborative cohort model, which introduced doctoral dissertation supervision in a collaborative-learning environment with several faculty mentors in a single discipline, the Dissertation House model (DHM) introduces a model of doctoral dissertation supervision that involves multiple mentors across several disciplines. On the basis of more than 200 students' reflections, we find that chal

SUBMITTER: Carter-Veale WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5008881 | biostudies-literature | Fall 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature