Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAMay 15

"The politics and practices of writing development in UK higher education" @uclpress

Critical perspectives on #AcademicWriting

978-1-80655-074-6 (#OpenAccess)
978-1-80655-072-2 (HB)
978-1-80655-073-9 (PB)
978-1-80655-075-3 (ePub)

DOI: 10.14324/111.9781806550746

https://uclpress.co.uk/book/critical-perspectives-on-academic-writing/

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingPolitical

Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing

Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing offers a timely, theoretically grounded examination of the often marginalised yet foundational role of academic writing in UK higher education. Based on the UCL Institute of Education’s Academic Writing Seminar Series, the volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners to interrogate the contested politics, practices, and pedagogies of academic writing […]

UCL Press
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAFeb 12

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

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/critical-realism-in-applied-linguistics/what-makes-academic-writing-humane/C0B8F2E866A5750FE9B4C19FD04FD78A

Show threadDr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAJul 28, 2025

"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/

Reclaiming My Voice: The Role of Paper Writers in a Student's Resistance to Silence

University was supposed to be a place of liberation. But almost immediately, I learned that academic writing came with its own constraints

Canary
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEADec 15, 2024

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

https://rdcu.be/d3AMw

ChatGPT and the separation between knowledge and knower

Show threadDr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEADec 3, 2024
[4/end]
I strongly advocate for a theory of praxis because ‘things do not speak for themselves’. In an #AcWri
context, this means inherited norms about #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
need theorising because in some cases such norms may be harmful, ie they may stymie #HumanEmancipation
(as defined by CR).
Show threadDr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEADec 3, 2024

[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

Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEANov 2, 2024

📢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?!

#AcWri

Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAJun 4, 2024

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.

#IACR2024
#METM24

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/events/iacr-2024

https://www.metmeetings.org/en/keynote-speakers:1606

#CriticalRealism #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #GAI

IACR 2024

Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAMay 1, 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

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/

What Makes Writing Academic

This open access book argues that what makes writing academic emerges from socio-academic and historical practices rather than conventionalised stylistic, lingu…

Bloomsbury
Show threadDr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAMay 1, 2024

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/

#FestaDeiLavoratori #PrimoMaggio

What Makes Writing Academic

This open access book argues that what makes writing academic emerges from socio-academic and historical practices rather than conventionalised stylistic, lingu…

Bloomsbury