ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the challenges faced by supervisors and graduate researchers in creative arts activity of making and writing to address the question: how supervisors can provide the guidance and feedback to enable the practitioner-researcher to find confidence in writing and develop their writing voice. It discusses the principles of supervision, staging the research, locating and writing into the research, and finally writing through and out of practice. Student participants are named as the authors of their comments throughout. Defining the research in creative practice research is one of the most difficult problems of the research process. Practice is by its very nature open and explorative, while research requires a question that can focus the scope of the project and direct the research. Practitioner-researchers are well schooled and fluent in the language of their practice and their discipline. They are creative practitioners and have come to academia to deepen their understanding of practice through research.
