"Learning to write, as a human, also means learning to understand what one cares about, and what one is willing to take a stance on.
It means learning to weigh one’s words, in written even more than in spoken contexts, because the words are there to stay".
The text is not the product
https://crookedtimber.org/2026/05/12/the-text-is-not-the-product/
📢Registration for our event in Milton Keynes (UK) is open until 30 June✅
We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
But online places are still available.
I'll be giving this year's keynote at #EATAW25 - alongside Suresh Canagarajah & Federico Navarro - on:
'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM}
🤞
#PACEspace #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #GenAI #CriticalRealism #OpenUniversity
www.eataw2025.com/keynote
ok, can someone pls explain to me why in my (albeit narrow) #HigherEducation
circles, supervisors/ees I come across seem unware of #DoctoralPedagogies
(eg https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Doctoral-Supervisors-Companion-Supporting-Effective-Research-in-Education-and-the-Social-Sciences/Walker-Thomson/p/book/9780415484145)?
(My academic role is complicated by straddling supervisor-postgraduate advisor roles in #AcademicLiteracies
)
Accompanying The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion this book examines what it means to be a doctoral student in education and the social sciences, providing a guide for those supervising students. Exploring the key role and pedagogical challenges that face supervisors in students’ personal development, the contributors outline the research capabilities which are essential for confidence, quality and success in doctorate level research. Providing guidance about helpful resources and meth
Must read asap.
#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #WritingCircle #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #knowledge
https://www.multilingual-matters.co.uk/page/detail/?k=9781800419612
This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university. The author uses writing as both a subject and a method of enquiry in an ethnographic deep dive into her long-term engagement with a postgraduate writers' circle in an elite South African university.
I🧡Laurel Richardson's approach to academic writing generally and this, specifically, because of the focus on writer agency, choice, & the complexities of referring to the 'world' (or REALITY).
#AcWri
#AcademicLiteracies
#ResearchWriting
#AcademicChatter
#PhD
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CriticalRealism
Publishing a 6-prompt exchange with a free #GPT on 'what makes writing academic' to highlight its contradictions, the paucity of the scholarly resources it's trained on and how it doesn't answer the question.
#AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #ArtificialIntelligence
https://academicemergence.press/current-conversation/holding-ais-to-account/
Is there an authoritative peer reviewed & referenced #OpenAccess dictionary of #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) with definitions/explanations of common yet slippery concepts eg #AcademicVoice #Criticality #Argument, etc?
#AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicLiteracies
For those curious about #Feminism and its relevance to #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) this event may be of interest:
These #AcWri workshops are powerful:
"Neoliberal publication models have led to the gaming of citations by authors, the manipulation of bibliometric data by journal editors, and [lots more]"
#AcademicPublishing
#AcademicLiteracies
#HigherEducation
#SocialJustice
https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/events/call-papers-writing-workshops-defiant-scholarship-africa
Johan K Sch
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA