I Will Tell Myself, Be Very Proud of the Writer You are Becoming

Abstract

Academic writing is a challenge for most graduate students. As a doctoral student at Memorial University, I attempt to explore my academic writing journey. There have been struggles and victories along the way. As I employ autoethnography as a methodology, I intend to use myself as both the subject and object of research as I focus on academic writing. It is my hope that as I narrate my experiences with trying to navigate my way around an academic discourse, my story will be a source of encouragement to other graduate students. It is my intention that as my story unfolds, there will be a shift from thinking that we lack the skills to write in an academic discourse to perceiving writing as a social process which takes time.