Microsoft Word & supervision meetings
Microsoft Word (MS Word) is the most common software used for written assignments. In fact, in all my supervision experiences the students used MS Word. In my supervision activities for example with the MSc Global Health, I work together with the student to ensure that she/he submits a dissertation, which firstly should pass, but ideally achieves more, and this is a co-constructed process ( Schreiber & Valle 2013) . The latter depends on what the student can input (e.g. time) and wants to get out of their studies. For example, I had one student who was very keen on learning more about academic research and writing, and she considered publishing her dissertation as a journal article. Knowing her aims I worked with her slightly differently by giving her additional feedback on where she would be cutting words (for when she will be writing a journal article), yet I worked with her overall the same way as with all my postgrad students, which is rooted in social constructivism and r...