Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: a handbook for Supervisors

Background knowledge, values and understandings 
in thesis and disser tation writing
Another useful topic to discuss is the background knowledge, values, and
understandings it is assumed students will share with their primary readers
(their examiners), what is important to their readers, and what is not. This,
students will discover, impacts on how much ‘display of knowledge’ their text
should contain, to what extent they should ‘show what they know’, as well as
what issues they should address, what boundaries they can cross (Kamler and
Threadgold 1997), and how they might do this.
Introduction
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