An Investigation of Chinese International Graduate Students’ Opinions of Individual Writing Consultations

This research project aims to investigate how Chinese international graduate students perceive Individual Writing Consultations (IWCs), and the findings will be used to provide constructive suggestion for writing IWC administrators. Two questions will be used to guide this study:

1. What are international graduate students’ opinions of IWCs?

2. How can IWCs improve their service so as to better benefit Chinese international graduate students?

Qualitative data will be collected by semi-structured interviews with 8-16 Chinese international graduate students who are taking or finishing education program in the past three years at a University in Southwestern Ontario and who are taking or finishing archeology and humanities program in the past three years at a University in Southern Netherlands. Participation will be voluntary and, with permission of participants, the interviews will be recorded with a digital device, and transcribed before analysis.

Faculty Supervisor:

Zuochen Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Leiden University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Windsor

Program: