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Dissertation
ANALYZING A GROUP OF DOCTORAL STUDENTS WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER COLLABORATIVELY ONLINE: A CASE STUDY IN A DOCTORAL PROGRAM OF EDUCATION
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005395
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/119246
Abstract
This dissertation consists of two papers that explore the journey of a writing group by four doctoral students who wanted to publish during their doctoral studies in an educational program at a research-intensive university in the northwest U.S. Using the Online Collaborative Learning Theory (Harasim, 2012) the first paper reveals the occurrences of social discourse and intellectual discourse that occurred when this group decided to collaborate online to try to write a publishable paper from research data originally presented to them by their professor in a course. During their online communication, mainly conducted on Skype chat application, there were clear traces of all the three phases of intellectual discourse, namely idea generating, idea organizing, and intellectual convergence. The group also showed signs of community building, social engagement, and user satisfaction. The transition chapter explains the need to use a more comprehensive theory to better investigate the struggles that the group experienced during their online collaboration and how they used the available online tools. The second study looks at the contradictions that occurred from the beginning the group’s paper was initiated to the moment they decided to meet on Zoom to revise it during summer 2020. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was utilized to investigate the situation. It was revealed that not only did the group was able to tackle the contradictions throughout the process, but they were also able to reflect on how these contradictions helped shape their experiences as scholarly writers, on how they managed to reconcile with the influences from their interconnecting activity systems, namely their personal lives and their doctoral studies, and on how the online mediating tools had important roles in their efforts to refine and finalize the paper. The final chapter argues that there needs to be more research in online doctoral student writing groups as higher education is becoming more online and there are more and more doctoral programs that demand their students to publish during their studies.
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- Title
- ANALYZING A GROUP OF DOCTORAL STUDENTS WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER COLLABORATIVELY ONLINE: A CASE STUDY IN A DOCTORAL PROGRAM OF EDUCATION
- Creators
- David Segoh
- Contributors
- Thomas L Salsbury (Advisor)Jane E Kelley (Committee Member)Kelly Puzio (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Teaching and Learning
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 155
- Identifiers
- 99900592056501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation