I've just found this paper on working with literatures to create identity & an authoritative voice, I found it so helpful I thought I'd share it!
Barbara Kamler & Pat Thomson 'Doctoral writing: pedagogies for work with literatures' Paper presented at AERA annual meeting April 2006, San Francisco, in the doctoral writing symposium.
Writing is still a struggle, but at least now I struggle authoritatively!!
Mog :-)