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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]TRANSCRIPT
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What Roles do Supervisors’ Comments play in the Context of Doctoral
Research Proposal Writing
Dr. Nancy Agens, Head,
Technical Operations, Phdassistance
In Brief
The supervisor’s comment plays a vital role
in the process of Research Proposal
Writing. A supervisor offers support to help
the student develop their critical thinking
power to reach high-level knowledge and
become an expert.
Keywords: Supervisor’s roles, thesis
proposal writing, research proposal
writing, dissertation writing, proposal
writing, and supervisor’s comment.
I. INTRODUCTION
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. They also stress that
knowledge is achieved through the feedback
provided by the supervisors. Especially,
when the supervisor’s comment is useful, it
signifies the inherent academic scope like
research supervision.
II. THE SUPERVISION FRAMEWORK
Feedback from supervisors plays a vital role
in the process of Research Proposal
Writing. In a more traditional model such as
an apprenticeship model of supervisor-
student relations, the supervisor plays the
role of the ‘expert’ who offers guidance to
the ‘novice’ research students. 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.
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.
The main 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.
5. Goals to provide help, assistance, and
coaching guidance as needed.
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6. Making sure that the organization has
professional development plans in the
workplace.
7. Conducting evaluations on performance
based on conventional systems and policies.
III. FACTORS TO SUCCESS IN
RESEARCH AND THE ROLES OF A
SUPERVISOR
A supervisor is allotted for the student who
researches to Research 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. 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.
1. Management: 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.
2: Administrative support: 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 to overcome all the
hurdles.
3. Specific technical support: 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.
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.
5. Personal support: 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. 3
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IV. RESEARCH EVIDENCE ON THE
ETHICS OF SUPERVISION
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 PhD 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 Research Proposal
Writing & Thesis Writing.
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 feedbacks that students
frequently need are about logical ordering
and organization of facts and ideas, and flow
and transition between sentences,
paragraphs, or chapters. 4
V. CONCLUSION
Supervisors offer both review and feedback,
to help the students develop the quality of
their research writing. It has been discovered
that feedback from supervisors can
contribute to the academic growth of the
students. From the perspective of research
proposal writing and PhD Thesis 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. 5
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1. Hazita Azmana, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Hnan
Omar Mohamed Aghwela, 2019, Investigating
Supervisory Feedback Practices And their Impact
on International Research Student’s Thesis
Development: A Case Study
2. Compasspoint nonprofit services, 2019,
Supervisor Roles and Responsibilities: Helping
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3. Nathara Mhunpiew, 2019, A Supervisor’s Roles
for Successful Thesis and Dissertation.
4. Yenus Nurie, 2018, Doctoral Students’ Perceived
Needs and Preferences for Supervisors’ Written
Feedback
5. Shulin Yu, Icy Lee, 2019, Understanding
Supervisors’ Commentary Practices in Doctoral
Research Proposal Writing: A Hong Kong Study.
6. J. Morton, N. Storch and C. Thompson, 2019,
Feedback on writing in the supervision of
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