Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising

In mentoring graduate students, it is hard to deny the ubiquity of graduate student advising. Faculty members, who are usually engaged in advising to tease out problems and suggest solutions, could often times be faced with negative attributions concerning faculty members’ competence, as well as...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13781/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13781/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13781/1/25423-76350-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-137812019-12-09T23:26:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13781/ Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, In mentoring graduate students, it is hard to deny the ubiquity of graduate student advising. Faculty members, who are usually engaged in advising to tease out problems and suggest solutions, could often times be faced with negative attributions concerning faculty members’ competence, as well as receive unaligned responses rather than collaborative understanding of issues or recommendations. While previous studies on advising may have focused on specific, intricate, discourse particles and microscopic perspectives on advising, studies on advice giving exchanges that depart from these dimensions are insufficient. To fill in this lacuna, this paper proposes to explore strategies and participation roles in which faculty members assume in selected doctoral dissertation advising. Through discourse analysis, specifically focusing on discourse and situational identities grounded in identities-ininteraction (Zimmerman, 1998), the study illuminates some of the many advising roles and advising strategies that are revealed as legitimate, aligning doctoral student learning experience. In particular, advising roles and advising strategies, as illustrated in this study, link social and institutional context by proposing some of the many trajectories of how both faculty members and graduate students understand the relevance of advising exchanges. By focusing on these exchanges, the paper will also contribute to the growing body of literature on a range of different factors that may constitute advising in terms of content and manner in which advising takes place. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13781/1/25423-76350-1-PB.pdf Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, and Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, and Ruzy Suliza Hashim, and Raihanah Mohd Mydin, (2018) Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 18 (2). pp. 217-234. ISSN 1675-8021 http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1087
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description	In mentoring graduate students, it is hard to deny the ubiquity of graduate student advising. Faculty members, who are usually engaged in advising to tease out problems and suggest solutions, could often times be faced with negative attributions concerning faculty members’ competence, as well as receive unaligned responses rather than collaborative understanding of issues or recommendations. While previous studies on advising may have focused on specific, intricate, discourse particles and microscopic perspectives on advising, studies on advice giving exchanges that depart from these dimensions are insufficient. To fill in this lacuna, this paper proposes to explore strategies and participation roles in which faculty members assume in selected doctoral dissertation advising. Through discourse analysis, specifically focusing on discourse and situational identities grounded in identities-ininteraction (Zimmerman, 1998), the study illuminates some of the many advising roles and advising strategies that are revealed as legitimate, aligning doctoral student learning experience. In particular, advising roles and advising strategies, as illustrated in this study, link social and institutional context by proposing some of the many trajectories of how both faculty members and graduate students understand the relevance of advising exchanges. By focusing on these exchanges, the paper will also contribute to the growing body of literature on a range of different factors that may constitute advising in terms of content and manner in which advising takes place.
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author	Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin,
spellingShingle	Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising
author_facet	Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin,
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title	Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising
title_short	Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising
title_full	Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising
title_fullStr	Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising
title_full_unstemmed	Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising
title_sort	advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2018
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Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member-graduate student advising

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