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(2024) . Plotting a path forward: Towards a supportive graduate writing program. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 15(3). [https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.16416](https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.16416)  \nPlotting a Path Forward: Towards a Supportive Graduate Writing Program  \nAbstract  \nWriting centres in Canada have an important role to play in aiding dissertation writers in the planning and composing of doctoral work. While doctoral writing support may challenge the conventional offerings that are currently provided in more traditional undergraduate writing centre environments, there is nevertheless a demonstrable need for this form of support. This article reviews the effectiveness of a writing support program with an attention to questions of genre, metadiscursive awareness, disciplinary conventions, and the program’s capacity to assist dissertation writers with completing large sections of work through building feelings of self-belief and self-advocacy. By analyzing survey results, the author argues that a focus on writing process and reflection at the PhD level can be instrumental in building momentum towards completion through overcoming social isolation, by increasing students’ agency and ownership over the project, and in building graduate-level writerly confidence.  \nLes centres d'écriture au Canada ont un rôle important à jouer en aidant les auteurs et les auteures de thèses à planifier et à rédiger leur travail de doctorat. Bien que l'aide à la rédaction des thèses de doctorat puisse remettre en question les offres conventionnelles qui sont actuellement proposées dans les centres d'aide à la rédaction pour les étudiants et les étudiantes de premier cycle, il existe néanmoinsun besoin manifeste pour cette forme d'aide. Cet article examine l'efficacité d'un programme d'aide à larédaction en s'intéressant aux questions de genre, de conscience métadiscursive, de conventions disciplinaires et à la capacité du programme à aider les auteurs et les auteures de thèses à terminer de grandes parties de leur travail en développant des sentiments de confiance en soi et de défense de ses propres intérêts. En analysant les résultats de l'enquête, l'auteur soutient que l'accent mis sur le processus d'écriture et la réflexion au niveau du doctorat peut contribuer à créer un élan versl'achèvement en surmontant l'isolement social, en augmentant l'agence et l'appropriation du projet par les étudiants et les étudiantes, et en développant la confiance en soi des écrivains de niveau supérieur.  \nKeywords  \ndoctoral support, writing centres, self-advocacy, rebuilding confidence, isolation; soutien au doctorat, centres d'écriture, défense de ses propres intérêts, rétablissement de la confiance, isolement  \nThis research paper/Rapport de recherche is available in The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:  \n[https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.16416](https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.16416)  \nThe past two decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the need to support graduate student writers, and to address the challenges facing dissertation writers in navigating both the initial stages of the PhD—including coursework, examinations, and proposals— as well as the dissertation proper (Aitchison, 2009; Lee & Boud, 2003; Lindsay, 2015; Simpson et al., 2016). In this pursuit, partof the dilemma facing supervisors and gra","cbCaikKc9Cl1Nizy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikKc9Cl1Nizy","pdf",335914,"English","# Abstract\n## Purpose and context\n## Program scope and evaluation focus\n## Key mechanisms and outcomes\n## Implications for PhD-level support","[{\"question\":\"What role do Canadian writing centres play for dissertation writers?\",\"answer\":\"They help dissertation writers plan and compose doctoral work. 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