ABSTRACT
The honours and master's students' supervisor deal with in the field of social work are probably typical of many: practice-focused workers wanting to improve the areas in which they work. Academic writing that is often a major challenge of master's and honours research. This chapter offers some ideas for addressing feedback and support for this academic writing. It addresses the challenge in terms of three main features of feedback on writing: a writing focus from the beginning, prescriptive feedback, and support that encourages the development of an academic voice. There are different forms of directive feedback that the student can receive. As supervisors we use both electronic tracked changes on documents, and handwritten comments on 'hard copy' drafts. The ethics application requires significant writing effort in the first part of the master's or honours project. It requires plain, jargon-free English which enables the ethics committee readers to understand the research focus, questions and procedure.
