Doctoral students' responses to writing critique: Messages for teachers

Writing is a major part of learning; scholarship in a discipline. Therefore , it is important to understand what promotes and what hinders this learnin g. In transcribed interviews, 15 doctoral students in nursing at a large un iversity described to us what they saw as helpful or not helpful about resp onses to their writing. The themes take the form of messages for teachers t hat, when reported in the context of the composition literature, provide he lpful suggestions for teachers.