Friday's academic writing tip
Length of a submission
While a journal's word count can flex, it is wise to stay within the limits at the time of initial submission. ECF = 6,000-8,000 words. Since ECF discourages discursive footnotes, please don't use those for your extra words.
As well, the ECF Editors want to publish as many authors as possible, so can only rarely we accept long articles because they take up the work, time, and space of two regular articles.
#C18th #18thC #AcWri @ASECS

Oh no, I've reached the 'no dopamine left' part of finishing this paper. Bummer.

#AmWriting #AcWri

Rhetorical questions in academic papers - yea or nay?

#AcWri #academia #AmReading

"The answer about human essence is not in being A and/or nonA, but it lies in the possibility of establishing a certain relationship between A and nonA. What is essential in human beings is their relationality, the relationship they establish between themselves and the Other" p. 70

#ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicWriting #AcWri #CriticalRealism

The historian urge to begin every article with: “In [date] something happened, that on the face of it was not remarkable, but actually it *was* remarkable, and I will now spend a lot of time telling you why”.

#EarlyModern #Histodons #AcWri #AmWriting

@histodons

Hello @annamills, thank you for your work on #AI literacies, pedagogies, and awareness raising. It's helping me, at least, raise awareness within my own academic writing contexts.

Are you aware of any similar and/or specific work - including your own that I'm not aware of - relating to the use of #LLMs and other #ArtificialIntelligence writing technologies in #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralResearch #ResearchWriting?

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicIntegrity #AILiteracies #tleap #AcademicLiteracies

Friday's academic writing tip
Remember: an abstract is a spoiler, not a teaser.
Even at the submission stage, include an intriguing and clear abstract. That brief paragraph could convince the perfect reviewer to report on your manuscript.
See the ECF guidelines for abstract-writing tips:
http://ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC #AcWri @ASECS

Spellcheckers don't try very hard, do they? Surely everyone understands what I mean by "conceptuationalisation"! 😂 #spellchecker #AcademicChatter #AcWri

“[G]raduate school is a hothouse for writer’s blocks. Only the most mentally healthy, confident individual can withstand the social pressures of graduate school – or assistant professorhood, for that matter – without developing a full-blown case of the willies about writing.” (Luker 2008: 222)

#AcWri #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #AcademicWriting

“[G]raduate school is a hothouse for writer’s blocks. Only the most mentally healthy, confident individual can withstand the social pressures of graduate school – or assistant professorhood, for that matter – without developing a full-blown case of the willies about writing.” (Luker 2008: 222)

#AcWri #academicchatter #academicmastodon #AcademicWriting #

"writing about the social world is to fix an ambiguous, shifting, complex, multicolored reality into a single black and white sketch" (Luker 2008: 8) #AcWri

Submitted an article yesterday! 12,300 words of #EarlyModern #MusicalBookHistory.

#AcWri #Postdoc #Histodons

Submitted an article yesterday! 12,300 words of #EarlyModern MusicalBookHistory.

#AcWri #Postdoc #Histodons

Hello #AcademicMastodon #MastodonAcademic,

when applying for government funding to do research (in the #UK, but I'm interested in other national contexts & policies, too), what sort of 'outputs' are valued most?

Grateful for more nuanced & specific replies in addition to poll responses.

Thank you for your insights

#ResearchFunding
#SocialJustice
#HigherEducation
#AcWri
#Philosophy #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalRealism
#UKRI
#ESRC
#Interdisciplinarity

Reposting to remove my typo. Sigh.
Friday's writing tip:
The ECF editors encourage authors to use the generic singular "they" and "their" pronouns.
These pronouns help writers to avoid assuming a gender.
These pronouns make language more equitable.
Language Matters
#AcWri What We Do
#c18th #18thC #18thCentury @ASECS
Added benefit: never again having to write or read that awkward construction "his or her." Phew!

Friday's writing tip:
The ECF editors encourage authors to use the generic singular "they" and "their" pronouns.
These pronouns help writers to avoid avoid assuming a gender.
These pronouns make language more equitable.
Language Matters
#AcWri What We Do
#c18th #18thC #18thCentury @ASECS
Added benefit: never again having to write or read that awkward construction "his or her." Phew!

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

Fine peer reviewer, I’ll remove my pun-ridden closing lines to this scholarly article, but just know that I’m not happy about it! #amwriting #acwri

Who else is doing research on artificial intelligence and academic writing that is policy and ethics-oriented?

Please boost, if you can, as I am hoping to reach #interdisciplinary voices & approaches to this, especially from the so-called #GlobalSouth, namely communities that don't seem to be getting much of a look-in right now on this 'western' concocted concern.

#AcWri #AI #gpt #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcademicChatter #ResearchWriting #WhatMakesAcademicWritingHuman(e) #MastodonAcademic