Writing in, writing out

In this chapter we build on our earlier work on writing groups as a pedagogy that promotes a writing-focused experience of research study and doctoral learning. As practitioner- researchers we draw on our combined experiences as supervisors, writing teachers and researchers working with doctoral students across a variety of disciplines and doctoral programmes. In particular here, we are concerned to show the ways in which writing groups facilitate an experience of doctoral research as participation in a network of peer relations: in the first instance within the writing group community itself, and then gradually more broadly, and ultimately with networks of other scholars.