Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624 (2022) “It’s exciting and rewarding!”: Structured mini writing retreats as a tool for undergraduate researchers. Journal of Further and Higher Education.

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Abstract

A good research base exists on the benefits of structured writing retreats and similar provision for academic staff and postgraduate researchers, but to date little has been published about the worth of such events for undergraduate students. This is despite the fact that undergraduate student researchers also experience external pressures, distractions and ambivalent or negative feelings towards writing just as academic staff and postgraduate students do. This paper reports on a mixed methods study of a structured writing retreat programme with third year undergraduate students over four academic years. The resulting data confirmed that one of the biggest challenges for students was finding time and space to write, which mirrors the findings of studies focused on more experienced researchers. The group of writing retreat participants had a very different experience and data revealed the power of these events for this group of students. The data presented here suggests that retreats should much more widely offered for undergraduate students in the latter stages of their degree programmes.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	"This is an accepted version of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Further & Higher Education Action on 13/06/2022 available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0309877X.2022.2085031”
Status:	Published
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2022.2085031
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
School/Department:	School of Education, Language and Psychology
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6404

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