If relevant, please feel free to share this #Mastodon account of mine with others on other platforms. I have no time, energy or much interest in setting up accounts on other platforms, but I am an academic, so I do miss the affordances of the bird that was - it was v. good to me during my #PhD years.

As an #ECR, I still look for cognate academic communities, but have few resources to spread myself across #SocialMedia platforms.

#AcWri #AcademicChatter #CriticalRealism #WhatMakesWritingAcademic

This is a lovely review of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic:

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/downloadpdf/journals/latiss/16/2/latiss160207.pdf (scroll to 2nd review)

Pre order. Available 21 September 2023 from
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/

Thank you @maarnikoivu

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #tleap #HigherEducation #CriticalRealism #AcademicLiteracies

On the one hand, I'm really trying to be ethical about how, where & what I publish, cf:

https://apples.journal.fi/article/view/114738

On the other, I'm trying to be ethical about how I advise others on what/where to publish:

https://sites.psu.edu/publishing/introduction/resource-personnel/

But when a mentee wants to publish in the journals I have issues with, what do I do?!

😣🤔 😱

See also: https://retractionwatch.com/2023/07/20/journal-editors-resign-strike-in-dispute-with-wiley-over-business-model-that-maximises-profit/

#OpenAccess #AcademicCapital #AcademicMastodon #AcademicPublishing #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic

I'm really happy that a scholar of hip-hop felt they could cite my work to argue their case:

"Despite academic publications asking that we abide by rather narrow means of writing—neat abstracts, cohesive findings, and succinct conclusions, thereby excluding knowledge that may lend itself to alternative forms of representation (Molinari, 2022)—AD Carson recently had great success pushing the boundaries of academic disciplines."

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic #HipHop

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15327086231186593?casa_token=M7NkuaigDb4AAAAA%3AoYmuWRS6io-9PSg98BZsAoe64BTwSO3M-yPijlmKW1tXcehIyh4odo3il3T4dZuwJL83PfZbfSZTlw

If your motivation to buy from am*zon is that it's cheaper, then think again because it's not (inc. the ethical tradeoffs).

When it comes to books (and many other items), second-hand is best as is the original retailer, eg the publishers.

For example: Am*zon are selling my book at £28.

Bloomsbury are selling it at £26: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/

It's also #OpenAccess so if it's money you need to save, look around and spend what you can where it matters.

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic #BoycottAmazon

@Iris

Hello Iris, have you read the book? What makes you think I have given the answer? Only asking because I think I have given the answer, but I'm not sure how others are reading what I wrote.

My new research is building on #WhatMakesWritingAcademic to ask #WhatMakesAcademicWritingHuman(e)

And thank you very much for engaging - I follow you here and on T. because you are part of the voices that need to be heard on AI, as well as all of these:

https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/the-ai-ethics-revolution-a-timeline-276593eef416

#AIethics

My book #WhatMakesWritingAcademic will be available in paperback from September 2023.

It's relevant to academic writers & their teachers because it engages critically with how knowledge is shaped by the forms of writing we choose.

You can pre-order from
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/ as well as from your preferred bookshop.

If you've read it, please let me know what you think of it and how you've used it.

Thnx

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #DoctoralWriting #CreativeWriting #CriticalRealism #OpenAccess

... and on my account of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic, a 'commitment to the truth' is essential.

It is one of the #SAPs (Social Academic Practices) that are a necessary condition for writing to be academic (p. 74):

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/what-makes-writing-academic-rethinking-theory-for-practice/ch3-what-makes-writing-academic-learning-from-writings-in-the-wild

#CriticalRealism #AcWri #ArtificialIntelligence #chatGPT #WhatMakesAcademicWritingHuman

Professor Chrissie Boughey's Foreword often gets overlooked because it is listed under 'Front Matter', but I am really grateful to her for the way she frames #WhatMakesWritingAcademic

#CriticalRealism
#AcademicLiteracies #SocialJustice
#AcWri

43 people are currently signed up to our #BALEAP2023 session and now I'm not sure how to manage such a crowd, given the session is designed to be a 'conversation':

https://baleap2023conference.sched.com/event/878ff416d131e109add8c5bc3c31af14/edit

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/what-makes-writing-academic-rethinking-theory-for-practice/foreword

I'm 'Troubling academic writing in the academy: a conversation about more than writing' with Dr Amanda French 👀

Our 2 big Qs:

- what is academic writing?(Amanda)
- what makes writing academic? (Julia)

#AcWri #HigherEducation #BALEAP2023 #tleap #WhatMakesWritingAcademic

https://sched.co/1HpNU

[ps when will 'share buttons' start to include @Mastodon as an option?]

A 'commitment to the truth' is one of the Social Academic Practices (SAPs) I discuss in my book, where I argue that #WhatMakesWritingAcademic (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243927/) are not its performative forms but its epistemic virtues, including 'a commitment to the truth'.

Such a commitment - even if fallacious or mistaken - implies human agency

#AcWri #gpt #CriticalRealism

This by @emilymbender resonates:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/03/fake-news-chatgpt-truth-journalism-disinformation

I may now get my thesis printed, 4 years on.

I literally couldn't afford to print it at the time. Then work, job applications, and suddenly, #COVID, just numbed the urgency & symbolism of having actually achieved a #PhD, supervised by 2 mentors I so admire.

Now that writing is being re-visited all over again (since Plato's Phaedrus), I need a physical record of the writing & thinking that came from human me.

https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59439/1/PhD_Final_Julia_Molinari_Accepted.pdf

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic #AcWri #PhDLife #ResearchWriting

I'll be co-presenting a panel in conversation with Dr Amanda French at #BALEAPConference2023, discussing our 2 recently published books on #AcademicWriting and #Philosophy:

- https://www.routledge.com/A-Philosophical-Approach-to-Perceptions-of-Academic-Writing-Practices-in/French/p/book/9780367209940

and

- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243927/

#tleap #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic

Thank you to our anonymous reviewers.

#AcademicMastodon #PeerReview #Academia

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/warwickfoundationstudies/baleapconference2023/

"while essay-writing systems change and improve over time, so too will our definitions of what constitutes a good and original academic essay [...] we should be regularly reviewing our expectations for academic writing"

#AcWri #AcademicWriting
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic #ArtificialIntelligence #GPT+ #StoryMachines #Creativity

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/06/the-lovelace-effect-ai-generated-texts-should-lead-us-to-re-value-creativity-in-academic-writing/

ntm for research on #AcWri:

"the [AI] training process is highly dependent on prior labelling performed by a human operator. This is problematic because it crystallises the operator’s cultural biases (e.g. racism and sexism) as well as her possible mistakes".

What other biases are being built in to #StoryMachines for #AcademicWriting?

#AcademicAlgorithms
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingHuman
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#CriticalRealism #ArtificialIntelligence

DOI: 10.1080/14767430.2022.2134618

[ntm]

"class structures the social world, including the academy from which many of us write. In other words, it matters that one language of white supremacy is economic".

From an academic writing #AcWri perspective, there is much to think about here, including the fact that #FrankFanon had to re-write his #dissertation on 'Black Skin, White Masks' (1952) in #psychology for it to actually count as 'psycholgy'

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic?

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-us-academy-and-the-provincialization-of-fanon/