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Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

I'm planning an event on 'The Future of the Doctorate' (will update here asap).

In the meantime, what are your views on its future, given all that's happening?

#AcWri #DoctoralEducation #DoctoralWriting #PhDLife #Thesis #ResearchWriting #GenAI #GAI

#AcademicSky

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146570/

I'm planning an event on 'The Future of the Doctorate' (will update here asap).

In the meantime, what are your views on its future, given all that's happening?

#AcWri #DoctoralEducation #DoctoralWriting #PhDLife #Thesis #ResearchWriting #GenAI #GAI

#AcademicSky

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146570/

I've just been gratefully reminded that academic writing can be an act of love, justice, and care, as well as "the very essence of what it means to be human" (p. 265).

✍️🏼🕊️

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #ResearchWriting

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507617753560

I've just been gratefully reminded that academic writing can be an act of love, justice, and care, as well as "the very essence of what it means to be human" (p. 265).

✍️🏼🕊️

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #ResearchWriting

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507617753560

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

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

It's not too late to submit your feedback on the draft of our Peer Review Committee's Recommendations on Use of Al in Scholarly Communication! 🤖🎓📢

Responses are voluntary and may be submitted anonymously until Monday, 15th September. ⌛

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?pli=1

#AItools #LLMs #PublicationEthics #ChatBots #GenerativeAI #PeerReview #JournalPublication #ScholComm #JournalEditing #ResearchPapers #ResearchWriting

The #PhD Handbook via @OpenUniPress (X handle)

Use code OPENUP20 for 20% off:
bit.ly/3S7pvBk

#PhDLife #AcademicChatter #ResearchWriting #AcWri

The #PhD Handbook via @OpenUniPress (X handle)

Use code OPENUP20 for 20% off:
bit.ly/3S7pvBk

#PhDLife #AcademicChatter #ResearchWriting #AcWri

Am working with a PhDer keen to create a visual/sensorial #thesis investigating the aesthetics of Pentecostal imagery (Religious Studies). Their supervisors aren't 'keen'.

Any examples/advice I can share with them?

#AcademicChatter #ResearchWriting #VisualMethods #CreativeMethods #PhDLife #AcWri

Am working with a PhDer keen to create a visual/sensorial #thesis investigating the aesthetics of Pentecostal imagery (Religious Studies). Their supervisors aren't 'keen'.

Any examples/advice I can share with them?

#AcademicChatter #ResearchWriting #VisualMethods #CreativeMethods #PhDLife #AcWri

"The paper is reported in line with STROBE guidelines." 😅

You wand to know more about STROBE? Go check it out:
https://www.strobe-statement.org/

#NightshiftEditor #PeerReview #ReportingGuideline #ResearchWriting #MissingData #Sampling #Survey

@kfnagle
Thanks re #Checklists. Part of me totally agrees.

a) I have been part of checklist developments and tried to be against items like "strengths", "definite conclusions", "innovation" etc. I have been & am usually overruled. I personally think they should not be part of such lists as they do not increase the quality of reporting.

b) Should we slowly move into a world where it would be fine to write "For reasons x, y, z, "innovation was not the point of the project"? ☺️

#ResearchWriting

Another #PeerReview finished.

Paper ~ 5000 words
Review ~ 1700 words
Duration ~ 1.75 hours

I recently had a discussion with an editorial board whether reporting #checklists should be mandatory. The board suggested that this would limit creativity and openness.

Most checklists only say what should be minimally reported and are rarely otherwise normative.

It would have helped this manuscript, so that I would have understood what the authors had done.

#AcademicEditing #ResearchWriting

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

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

Tried to find a GIF to illustrate our latest #RegisteredReport Stage 1 submission. Funnily enough most of the #TaskDone #Milestone #Achievement GIFs seem to imply that the job would actually have been finished with this 😂 😂

#DoneNotDone

While waiting for #PeerReview and editorial decision, you could maybe read the last RR we published about the impact of the #COVID19 pandemic on adolescent #mentalhealth
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.211114

#AcademicPublishing #ResearchWriting

The "Reviewer's guide to #QuantitativeMethods" provides a concise summary of what to learn about and how to plan & report studies employing 31 (2nd ed. apparently 35) methods: https://www.routledge.com/The-Reviewers-Guide-to-Quantitative-Methods-in-the-Social-Sciences/Hancock-Stapleton-Mueller/p/book/9781138800137

Since it is a book, it will be difficult for many to get access. Does anyone know whether at least the checklists have been published somewhere #OpenAccess?

And is there a #QualitativeMethods version?

#ResearchMethods #PeerReview #StudyDesign #ResearchWriting #AcademicEditing #SocialSciences

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

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

Dear #MastodonAcademic, have any you budgeted for *writing time* when applying for research funding? I've never seen a grant bid that does so, which suggests that writing is not recognised as the #MethodOfEnquiry it is and is not accounted for in grant time. For example, budgeting for a #WritingRetreat or a project assistant to ensure grant holders have time to at least draft for the dissemination of their findings would seem reasonable to me but ....?#ResearchWriting #AcWri #HigherEducation

Dear #MastodonAcademic, have any you budgeted for *writing time* when applying for research funding? I've never seen a grant bid that does so, which suggests that writing is not recognised as the #MethodOfEnquiry it is and is not accounted for in grant time. For example, budgeting for a #WritingRetreat or a project assistant to ensure grant holders have time to at least draft for the dissemination of their findings would seem reasonable to me but ....?#ResearchWriting #AcWri #HigherEducation

If you had to read a #CaseStudy on how academics (including #DoctoralWriters and #Supervisors) are actually using #ArtificialIntelligence writing tools, what would you like the case study to cover?

Asking as part of ongoing research.

The whole #AI thing is a moving target dictated by non-educational imperatives, so, I'm trying to design a case study that is, to some extent, future-proof.

#AcademicMastodon
#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AIethics #ResearchWriting #AcademicPublishing #HigherEducation

If you had to read a #CaseStudy on how academics (including #DoctoralWriters and #Supervisors) are actually using #ArtificialIntelligence writing tools, what would you like the case study to cover?

Asking as part of ongoing research.

The whole #AI thing is a moving target dictated by non-educational imperatives, so, I'm trying to design a case study that is, to some extent, future-proof.

#AcademicMastodon
#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AIethics #ResearchWriting #AcademicPublishing #HigherEducation

What must academic writing be like for AI to imitate it?

#AcWri
#ArtificialIntelligence
#chatGPT
#ResearchWriting
#HigherEducation #CriticalRealism
#Retroduction
#Abduction

What must academic writing be like for AI to imitate it?

#AcWri
#ArtificialIntelligence
#chatGPT
#ResearchWriting
#HigherEducation #CriticalRealism
#Retroduction
#Abduction

Thanx to @baleap (twitter account), our #BALEAP2023 talk on #AcademicWriting is now here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_rEKNPolDY&list=PL0xk8t5VPtuu00x2mGsaY3r0HJa-LD5wI&index=49 (26').

Responses to our 5 provocations were not recorded but some are here:

https://ougraduateschool.padlet.org/julia1796/troubling-academic-writing-in-the-academy-a-conversation-abo-pfiyhpw86hs6uubb

@FrenchMandywba (twitter)
& I welcome further informed responses on the padlet

#tleap #AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #ResearchWriting #AcademicPublishing

Thanx to @baleap (twitter account), our #BALEAP2023 talk on #AcademicWriting is now here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_rEKNPolDY&list=PL0xk8t5VPtuu00x2mGsaY3r0HJa-LD5wI&index=49 (26').

Responses to our 5 provocations were not recorded but some are here:

https://ougraduateschool.padlet.org/julia1796/troubling-academic-writing-in-the-academy-a-conversation-abo-pfiyhpw86hs6uubb

@FrenchMandywba (twitter)
& I welcome further informed responses on the padlet

#tleap #AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #ResearchWriting #AcademicPublishing

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 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

Nothing like a young person to forever remind you to 'get to the point' - my son, now 18, has been reminding me of his since his age of reason (7): mamma, and your point is?!

#Teaching #AcademicCommunication #SoWhat #AcWri #ResearchWriting #CutToTheChase

Nothing like a young person to forever remind you to 'get to the point' - my son, now 18, has been reminding me of his since his age of reason (7): mamma, and your point is?!

#Teaching #AcademicCommunication #SoWhat #AcWri #ResearchWriting #CutToTheChase

An event of interest to scholars and teachers of
#ResearchWriting #AcWri #AcademicTranslation #AcademicPublishing
#TransLanguaging #RacioLinguistics #MultiLingualism #AppliedLinguistics
#EnglishLinguaFranca
#PRIESAL2023
https://eventos.ull.es/priseal-v-global-academic-research-publication-and-dissemination-in-fast-changing-times/about-priseal

An event of interest to scholars and teachers of
#ResearchWriting #AcWri #AcademicTranslation #AcademicPublishing
#TransLanguaging #RacioLinguistics #MultiLingualism #AppliedLinguistics
#EnglishLinguaFranca
#PRIESAL2023
https://eventos.ull.es/priseal-v-global-academic-research-publication-and-dissemination-in-fast-changing-times/about-priseal

Related to Roland Barthes' distinction between *écrivant* (someone who writes about subjects that exist & is a transactor of events and ideas = academic writers? GPT?) and *écrivain* (someone whose subject is, [...] merely writing itself)" (Edward Said, The World, the Text and the Critic, p. 60):

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z

In my work, I argue - and assume - that academic writers should also be *écrivain(e)s* because writing is a method of enquiry.

#AcWri #Author vs #Writer #GPT #ResearchWriting

Related to Roland Barthes' distinction between *écrivant* (someone who writes about subjects that exist & is a transactor of events and ideas = academic writers? GPT?) and *écrivain* (someone whose subject is, [...] merely writing itself)" (Edward Said, The World, the Text and the Critic, p. 60):

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z

In my work, I argue - and assume - that academic writers should also be *écrivain(e)s* because writing is a method of enquiry.

#AcWri #Author vs #Writer #GPT #ResearchWriting

@tedpavlic I'm sure it's not the intention - indeed they add a cautionary note - but this kind of advice leads to HARKing & other questionable research practices that massage research into a neat narrative.

It's the antithesis of #OpenScience practices like #RegisteredReports. You should start with a research question, a summary of what is known, & then the methods. Post-hoc theorising must be declared. It keeps you honest.

#WritingTips #ResearchWriting #HARKing #QRPs #PublicationEthics

@tedpavlic I'm sure it's not the intention - indeed they add a cautionary note - but this kind of advice leads to HARKing & other questionable research practices that massage research into a neat narrative.

It's the antithesis of #OpenScience practices like #RegisteredReports. You should start with a research question, a summary of what is known, & then the methods. Post-hoc theorising must be declared. It keeps you honest.

#WritingTips #ResearchWriting #HARKing #QRPs #PublicationEthics

#BakeYourResearch update from the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool (who are still on the bird):

https://ougraduateschool.padlet.org/robertwilson13/b7ggrqtrlfhno1y5

Unbelievable creations!

#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #ResearchWriting #AcWriMo #AcWri #DoctoralResearch #AcademicBaking #VisualThinking #CulinaryThinking #AcademicProcess #Interdisciplinarity

Excited to try out mastodon!

#introduction I teach research writing at Econ and business school PhD programs. I post writing tips for researchers. I have a book on research writing that guides PhD candidates through the process of building a first draft. And I am working on a second book for undergraduates. If you, too, are a #writing or #researchwriting nerd, I would love to connect with you here! Or if you just want to chat about the joys and horrors of writing.