ABSTRACT
While these four factors may impact on the native-English-speaking thesis writer, it is their intensity and co-occurrence in combination with limited linguistic resources in English which may make the second-language thesis writer’s task and, therefore, the supervisor’s task, more arduous. To what extent are these factors part of the supervisor’s brief? They may not directly appear to be but, if unacknowledged, may be contributing to either a lack of progress or failure to complete.
