Forward Momentum: Providing Supportive Space for EdD Students’ Dissertation Progression through Weekly Online Writing Sessions

This essay describes an online writing group introduced to a CPED EdD program at a research-intensive, land-grant university during the summer of 2020 when the existing face-to-face program shifted to fully online delivery. The purpose of the writing sessions was to support EdD student practitioners...

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Published in:Impacting education 2021-01, Vol.6 (3), p.13-20
Main Authors: Maldonado, Laura G., Dolfi, J. Jordan, Bartlett, II, James E., Bartlett, Michelle E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
community building
Distance learning
Doctoral Dissertations
Doctoral Students
Education
education doctorate
Electronic Learning
Graduate students
Graduate studies
Land-grant colleges
Online instruction
online writing sessions
Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
State Universities
Student writing
Students
writing
Writing (Composition)
Writing instruction
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Summary:This essay describes an online writing group introduced to a CPED EdD program at a research-intensive, land-grant university during the summer of 2020 when the existing face-to-face program shifted to fully online delivery. The purpose of the writing sessions was to support EdD student practitioners with dissertation writing productivity by offering multiple weekly opportunities for synchronous writing sessions via Zoom online video conferencing. Although this new program is still in development, initial student feedback suggests that the writing sessions not only supported students’ dissertation progression, but it also established a sense of community and social support in an online environment. Lessons learned are shared, and we argue that this could be an ideal time to offer online writing sessions, especially since the pandemic will continue into the coming months. 
ISSN:2472-5889
2472-5889
DOI:10.5195/ie.2021.186