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I encourage people to pursue their own interests, and try to be an enabler, to speak of 'cando' rather than 'can't do', particularly in terms of hybridising fields, disciplines, genres etc. However I am a firm adherent of the maxim that a struggling student needs firm guidelines and should be encouraged away from blurred genres and in fact blurred anything, and delivered into the comforting arms of strong traditional, unadventurous forms. Thus I am an interfering type rather than a handsoff type. I like to set a firm theoretical basis, to focus the collection of well delineated data, and to achieve a describable result of that process. One of my favourite articles about methodology is at http://www.shu.ac.uk/daol/articles/v1/n1/a1/antaki2002002-paper.html By Antaki, C., M. Billig, et al. (2006). "Discourse Analysis Means Doing Analysis: A Critique Of Six Analytic Shortcomings." Discourse Analysis Online. I am not supervising in the masters program here, but I have supervised many honours students and only one has not achieved a first class. I am currently supervising 4 PhD students.