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WHAT ROLES DO SUPERVISORS COMMENTS PLAY IN THE CONTEXT OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL WRITING An Academic presentation by Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Phdassistance Group www.phdassistance.com Email: [email protected]

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The role of the supervisor’s comment in Writing a Research Proposal and its progress is very significant. The supervisor’s comment is very essential for research students in many aspects as it replaces the type of commands other students receive in classroom and lecture approaches. Students must depend on the comment provided by their supervisors in the process of researching and writing up the thesis proposal, to get supervisors' command and guidance about progress in their research and thesis writing. Besides this, acknowledged supervisor’s useful and comprehensive feedback on the student’s research is key for the successful completion of their research and illustrates good research supervision. Learn More About: https://bit.ly/2Get6e0 Contact Us: Website : https://www.phdassistance.com/ UK NO: +44–1143520021 India No: +91–4448137070 Email: [email protected]

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WHAT ROLES DO SUPERVISORS COMMENTS PLAY IN THE CONTEXT OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL WRITING

An Academic presentation byDr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Phdassistance Group www.phdassistance.comEmail: [email protected]

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In Brief

Introduction

Supervision

Framework

Factors to Success in research and the Roles of a

Supervisor Research Evidence on the ethics of

SupervisionConclusion

Outline

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

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In Brief

The supervisor’s comment plays a vital role in the process ofr esearch proposal writing. A supervisor offers support to help the student develop their critical thinking power to reach

high-level knowledge and become an expert.

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Students must depend on the comment provided by their supervisors in the process of researching and writing up the thesis proposal, to get supervisors' command and guidance about progress in their research and thesis writing.

Besides this, acknowledged supervisor’s useful and comprehensive feedback on the student’s research is key for the successful completion of their research andillustrates good research supervision.

Especially, when the supervisor’s comment is useful, it signifies the inherent academic scope like research supervision.

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In this model, the supervisor’s comment allows directing the student into discipline-specific ways of thinking and writing and offers a concrete and site assistance for the student on the progress of their research writing and ideas.6

The overall role of a supervisor is to communicate the performance of overseeing employees, organizational needs, provide assistance, support, find out improvement needs, and manage the mutual association between student and the staff so that each is successful.

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The major responsibilities of the supervisors are:

1. Align expectations of individual performance with managerial goals.

2. Improving performance goals together with their direct reports.

3. Making sure that performance goals are communicated and in progress.

4. Giving reasonable, productive, and sensible feedback towards student’s performance expectations.

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5. Goals to provide help, assistance, and coaching guidance as needed.

6. Making sure that the organization has professional development plans in the workplace.

7. Conducting evaluations on performance based on conventionalsystems and policies.

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A supervisor is allotted for the student who researches to r esearch with quality processes to bring out the best possible outcome as an outstanding thesis or research.

The anticipation of having a smooth working phase and concluding the research with the best outcome is not an easy task.

The success of a research or a thesis for a research student greatly depends upon the roles of their supervisor.

Factorsto get Success in Research and the Role of a Supervisor

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The student not only has to be prepared with the knowledge but also be capable of managing others and peripheral factors in the meantime.

The phase during which the research is been conducted is mixed with a variety of tasks.

The five encouraging roles of a supervisor who involve in the supervision are management, administrative support, specific technical support, broader intellectual support, and personal support brings about the result of the research.

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Like marriage, both supervisors and students must agree to work together.

The time for managing deadlines, meetings, and objectives has to be planned well.

The student and the supervisor are responsible to trust each other and cooperate to work together.

1.Management:

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A student also needs support for getting funds and other resources.

Some rules and difficulties in administration within the college or university may be a hindrance to the progress of the research.

Thus, the supervisor must be a great support for students and help them toovercome all the hurdles.

2. Administrative support:

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Students need to be trained in specific skills like searching the related literature, skill in using the particular software, using the library, structuring the thesis and research, offering contacts with the experts in the field, and offer training in critical reading.

All these skills must be guided by the supervisor.

3. Specific technical support:

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4. Broadening intellectual support:

Supervisors must offer support to help the student develop ability over his/her critical thinking and discussion to attain high-level knowledge and become an expert in the field of study.

These skills surely assist the student in presenting and defending their research and thesis.

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Most important role in providing personal support as emotional support, encouragement, inspiration, providing with helpful advice, listening to their problems can perk up their relationship and work.

Supervisors and students are working under faith, care, and love that will develop outstanding research.

5. Personal support:

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Critical thinking is stimulated through the feedback offered by the supervisor among students to guarantee the development of productive ideas for writing.

Feedback of a supervisor is a vital thing for gaining the learning experience of a Ph.D. student.

The supervisor communicates through the written feedback and offers advanced training in academics, especially in writing, to the student.

Written feedback by the supervisors and lecturers are the essential source of input for r esearch proposalwriting and thesis writing.

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Research Evidence on the Ethics of Supervision

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Students face difficulties in their research writing process from the perspective of expressing and linking ideas, organizing their assignments, and ensuring precision in their writing.

As such, productive written feedback from their supervisors is of utmost significance to improve their research writing skills.

Other feedback that students frequently need are about logical ordering and organization of facts and ideas, and flow and transition between sentences, paragraphs, or chapters.

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Supervisors offer both review and feedback, to help the students develop the quality of their research writing.

It has been discovered that feedback from supervisorscan contribute to the academic growth of the students.

From the perspective of research proposal writing and Ph.Dthesis writing, supervisors’ feedback plays a vital role in assisting the student’s entry into the research community through scaffolding the research writing process, developing a quasi-supervisory relationship, as well as improving their confidence and motivation.

Conclusion

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