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I wrote 1600 words of my 1000 words today, which means there's significant cutting in my future. But at least I made wordcount!

#AmWriting #AcWri #AcademicChatter

I'll be giving this year's keynote at #EATAW25 - alongside Suresh Canagarajah & Federico Navarro - on:

'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM}
🤞
#PACEspace #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #GenAI #CriticalRealism #OpenUniversity

www.eataw2025.com/keynote

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

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

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

"A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing" has today been accepted for publication in the Journal of #CriticalRealism

Basically, #AcademicWriting
must be emancipatory, educative, committed to truth.

Hoaxes, #IELTS, #GAI
don't meet the criteria.

#AcWri
#ExplanatoryCritique

[furiously writing 'contractions' instead of 'contradictions' - someone somewhere is trying to tell me something] ✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽

#AcWri #CriticalRealism

How might we flourish in this crisis of modernity?

"While promoting a more loving world is a compelling reason to write a book, it is not why Love and the Market emerged."

#Love #CriticalRealism #AcWri (and 'bad' writing) #Witches #Capitalism #Marxism

https://criticalrealismnetwork.org/2024/10/10/can-a-critical-realist-conception-of-love-help-us-to-flourish-through-the-crises-of-modernity/

Currently reading #AllAboutLove by #bellhooks

Linking it to #AcWri and #CriticalRealism

I🧡Laurel Richardson's approach to academic writing generally and this, specifically, because of the focus on writer agency, choice, & the complexities of referring to the 'world' (or REALITY).

#AcWri
#AcademicLiteracies
#ResearchWriting
#AcademicChatter
#PhD
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CriticalRealism

Thank you:

- Reviewer 2: "an important contribution to critical realism, critical realist research, & academic writing"

- Reviewer 1: "thank you for allowing me the opportunity to read & learn from your text"

- Editors, for inviting me to review & re-submit

#CriticalRealism #AcWri #AcademicPublishing

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

We were very kindly invited to write a communication piece for #AGUPubs Eos magazine, to go along with our recent review paper. If you'd like a quick overview on using #speleothems for #palaeofire research, look no further!

https://eos.org/editors-vox/using-cave-formations-to-investigate-ancient-wildfires

#SciComm #AcWri #paleofire @Andbaker @unsw

Woohoo it's paper publishing day! So pleased to have this article out in the light of day, and published #OpenAccess in Reviews of Geophysics. We give you everything we know about #speleothems as #palaeofire archives, including tips on sample and site selection, and appropriate methods. We then sweeten the deal with four case studies.

This one was a huge team effort, and could not have been written without the involvement of all the co-authors (👋 @Andbaker).

#AcWri #Academia