"What Feelings Didn't I Experience!" Affect and Identity in PhD Writing
Agnes: I became a writer, a researcher and an academic during the course of my thesis. I had so many firsts during that time: first conference paper, teaching my first tutorial, giving my first lecture, my first publication, my first research award,my first grant. It was, up to that point, themost difficult thing I had ever done I discovered a persistence and determination that I did not realise I had.