My thoughts on "What Makes Academic Writing Human(e): A Critical Realist Response" in: Bouchard & Zotzmann, eds. #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics #CambridgeUniversityPress 2026
#AcademicWriting
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingHumane
#GenAI
"writing isn’t just academic. It’s survival. It’s the way we make space for ourselves in systems that would rather we stay invisible. The pressure to sound “neutral” is often the pressure to be less ourselves"
Should you pay to be yourself? #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/feature/2025/06/12/university-paper-writing/
A humanistic approach to #GAI:
"humans communicate on the basis of word-world relationships, [...] AI technologies [are] to word-word'
#AcWri
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CompositionStudies
#Humanities
#CriticalRealism
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#Emancipation
#AppliedLinguistics
#HigherEd
[2/n] What this means in practice is that:
a) academic writing should always be educative, truthful, and humane;
b) that there exist different approaches to and imaginaries of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
📢Academic writers:
what do you use to map your writings as a coherent whole, so you can see their connections & directions? I 've ended up with several discrete but concurrent writing projects and need to 'see' how they hang together in my world view of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
Scriviner?!
Sharing 2 talks I'll be giving in the coming months because they both excite me & terrify me.
I'd welcome informed critical & constructive reactions to both abstracts.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/events/iacr-2024
On this #PrimoMaggio #FestaDeiLavoratori, I wish to celebrate my #FreeLabour for #HigherEducation and #CriticalThinking:
I earn less than £100 a year since it was published #OpenAccess in 2022, yet it has many (inter)national citations and took me 10 years to conceive, research, & publish - that was my choice, but also my ideology and contribution to decolonising academic communication
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/
Seemingly unrelated thoughts but connected to #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich?
I've been invited to a symposium on #WhatMakesWritingAcademic @ Warwick Uni, UK, & hope issue of #English #AcademicPublishing & #Capitalism come up:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/
I just wasn't prepared for the emotion of my own child citing me in a 1st yr UG essay.
Luckily, we have different surnames.
This emotion-event is intersectionally layered - he said I 'have relevance' but he's not the #REF
#Academia #Parenthood #Research #sociology #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #HipHop
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA
