#academicwriting — Public Fediverse posts

"In retrospect, these strategies were a form of authorial self-preservation."

Autoethnography of the rhetorical and emotional dimensions of writing about study limitations:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161251363704

The paper draws on 8 manuscripts, 17 drafts, 22 #PeerReview by the author, journal entries, and email exchanges.

Interesting reflections & it illustrates the challenges and questions, especially if one has not written many manuscripts, yet.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting #NightshiftEditor #ECRs

I enjoyed reading this - I rarely enjoy reading academic articles, but this one speaks to arguments about #agonism in #HigherEducation

I make similar points about #AcademicWriting in ch 2 'Academic writing as political': https://uclpress.co.uk/book/critical-perspectives-on-academic-writing/ #OpenAccess

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-025-09644-0

Watercolouring recent academic fieldwork along the so-called “Green Line” that divides the island of Cyprus. Making slow sense of experiences, thoughts, observations on paper.

#watercolor #watercolour #visualMethods #creativeMethods #acwri #academicWriting #slowscience

The Digital Humanities Now website has come out of hibernation and kicked back into gear. OK, so it took me a whole year to notice this, but better late than never to spot a very interesting resource.

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicWriting #AcademicResources #ResearchTools https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/

Is there a word-phrase to describe citations that are meaningful, ones that understand the context in which what they are citing was written & that use the cited work in ways that enhance their own - the opposite of 'vanity referencing' [1/2]
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicMastodon
#AcWri
#AcademicWriting
#AcademicPublishing

Just talked with #DisabilityServices at Colorado Christian University. They’re encouraging me to use #MicrosoftWord instead of #LaTeX for schoolwork, since Word has built-in dictation that could help when my #RheumatoidArthritis flares up and typing gets hard.

To other #Blind folks: how do you remember all of Word’s keyboard shortcuts? I swear I spend more time navigating the ribbon than actually writing. I stick with LaTeX because I can remember commands better than shortcuts.

They said Word’s dictation is accessible, so I’m giving it a shot. But I’m also wondering: what reference managers do you use? I’ve been using #Zotero since it works with #VSCode and LaTeX, but I don’t know how well it integrates with Word — and definitely not with #PowerPoint. My school has me doing a lot of #APA-style presentations lately.

Would love tips from anyone juggling accessibility, citations, and academic workflows.

@[email protected] @mastoblind @main

#Accessibility #AcademicAccess #ScreenReader #DictationTools #ChronicIllness #NeurodivergentAcademia #AcademicWriting #TechForGood #InclusiveTech #PresentationTools #CitationTools #AcademicWorkflow #DisabledAndAcademic #LaTeXCommunity #MicrosoftAccessibility #ZoteroTips

Great @EASE seminar yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYWGlatYZQ

Really good content also for authors, PIs, #PeerReview -ers & people who consider #RCT methodology for future work.

The discussion was lively and covered some advanced topics.

One key moment:
the broader landscape of registrations, and within that the specific trial requirements, is often not covered well in the literature and such talks - for more, check in at 6:24min

#Registration #PreRegistration #RCT #NightshiftEditor #AcademicWriting

This article argues that #CriticalRealism
(CR) should develop its own theory of #AcademicWriting
because of CR’s explicit commitment to #HumanEmancipation
and #StratifiedOntology
[1/n]
#AcWri

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2024.2429225#abstract

Recommendations for conduct and write-up of observational studies from my #NightshiftEditor threads got some attention on #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7229141904678887424/

The five suggested papers in brief:

1) STROBE
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297

2) Confounder selection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447501/

3) DAG tutorial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821727/

4) Table 2 Fallacy
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/177/4/292/147738?login=false

5) Prediction vs causation
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2074/5831974?login=false

#AcademicWriting #Epidemiology #StudyDesign

The reporting guideline for #SysReviews of outcome measurement instruments offers great resources to support the planning and write-up of such reviews
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-024-03634-y

We invited response letters to support the discussion, the first 3 are published here:

1) https://rdcu.be/dNuyj

2) https://rdcu.be/dNuzs

3) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-024-03732-x

4) Response by the PRISMA-COSMIN team
https://rdcu.be/dNuz3

More letters to come, stay tuned!

#Psychometrics #AcademicWriting #ISOQOL

Until recently I was still using paper and pen for note-taking but after seeing an intriguing post about #AcademicWriting I switched to #Obsidian and it's been a revelation.
Really like the markdown functionality.

This is exactly the kind of thing I joined #Mastodon for.

#NoGoingBack