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Finding the #time, place, cognitive and social space to engage in #academicwriting is tricky on most days, and particularly so in the summer with #KidsOnHoliday. One way in which I practice #NegotiatingDisengagement as a mom of four in the summer has been to start my own writing group. We had our first meeting this week, and I hope it will support others who share the struggle! Anybody else here juggling writing and family engagements over the holidays? #acwri

Dr Ian McCormick Jun 18

Another day spent revising drafts for ARCHAIC ENGLISH and contemplating the acquisition of a 'new' keyboard to match the task...
#acwri #research #edchat
#HigherEd #edusky

Dr. Emilia Luukka Jun 17

Although #academicwriting is a demanding (though rewarding) craft, it need not grind academic writers to absolute mince. Being invested in creating sustainable #acwri cultures, I love that Aiken & Norton's edited volume packs strategies and insights for all kinds of #collaborativewriting. Hot off the press, ships 26 June! In our chapter, Prof. Lindholm and I argue that writers saw social academic writing as a regular, structured and pleasant practice that enabled reflecting on one's #writing.

Dr Ian McCormick May 8

Marriage v. PhD. Not my experience. Was it yours ? #HigherEd #PhdChat #research #AcademicSky #edchat #university #students #acwri

JulietJFall Mar 24

Watercolouring recent academic fieldwork along the so-called “Green Line” that divides the island of Cyprus. Making slow sense of experiences, thoughts, observations on paper.

#watercolor #watercolour #visualMethods #creativeMethods #acwri #academicWriting #slowscience

scholar_farmer Feb 25

What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.

Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039

#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter

scholar_farmer Feb 1

I had a FANTASTICALLY productive day working on the wrong project.

Avoidance on A meant I got a complete draft of B done!

Yay for what I have in hand; weekend hours are freebies anyway, right?

#AmWriting #AcWri #Research #TheresAlwaysTomorrow

scholar_farmer Jan 29

Sometimes writing is going through old files and saying: done, done, use this, done.

it doesn't always feel like progress, but it is

#AmWriting #AcWri

scholar_farmer Jan 4

That thing I’ve been working on all break? It’s a thing! Book chapter is live and ready for edits. But that’s NEXT weekend!

I wrote a thing, hooray, hooray!

#AmWriting #AcWri

Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA Dec 16, 2025

Is there a word-phrase to describe citations that are meaningful, ones that understand the context in which what they are citing was written & that use the cited work in ways that enhance their own - the opposite of 'vanity referencing' [1/2]
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