ABSTRACT
Some students welcome the vision of the final straight and strive to cross the finishing line, but others find change in writing patterns and supervisor feedback disconcerting. 'Writing prolifically' means writing and revising more regularly, and often adopting more productive writing habits. This chapter provides examples of activities and suggestions for feedback that supervisors can use to help students establish productive writing patterns. It builds on Aitchison and Lee's doctoral student writing group pedagogy, particularly 'making writing "normal business" in the doing of research', Lee and Murray's framework for supervising doctoral writing, and research on productive academic writing habits. The Structured Writing Retreat approach (SWR) offers multiple opportunities to help students establish good writing patterns. Speeding up the drafting–feedback–revising cycle helps students to 'write prolifically'. They develop productive writing practices that they can apply alone and in other student groupings. The chapter draws on the author's experience of working with doctoral students in many Structured Writing Retreats.
