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"The politics and practices of writing development in UK higher education" @uclpress

Critical perspectives on #AcademicWriting

978-1-80655-074-6 (#OpenAccess)
978-1-80655-072-2 (HB)
978-1-80655-073-9 (PB)
978-1-80655-075-3 (ePub)

DOI: 10.14324/111.9781806550746

https://uclpress.co.uk/book/critical-perspectives-on-academic-writing/

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingPolitical

My thoughts on "What Makes Academic Writing Human(e): A Critical Realist Response" in: Bouchard & Zotzmann, eds. #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics #CambridgeUniversityPress 2026

#AcademicWriting
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingHumane
#GenAI

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/critical-realism-in-applied-linguistics/what-makes-academic-writing-humane/C0B8F2E866A5750FE9B4C19FD04FD78A

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

On this #PrimoMaggio #FestaDeiLavoratori, I wish to celebrate my #FreeLabour for #HigherEducation and #CriticalThinking:

I earn less than £100 a year since it was published #OpenAccess in 2022, yet it has many (inter)national citations and took me 10 years to conceive, research, & publish - that was my choice, but also my ideology and contribution to decolonising academic communication

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/

Seemingly unrelated thoughts but connected to #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich?

I've been invited to a symposium on #WhatMakesWritingAcademic @ Warwick Uni, UK, & hope issue of #English #AcademicPublishing & #Capitalism come up:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/

#FestaDeiLavoratori #PrimoMaggio

At 4pm (UK) on Thursday 25 January, I'm giving a #IOEWritingSeminar on how the theory of #CriticalRealism helps me make sense of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic.

Chaired by my #OpenUniversity colleague Dr Jackie Tuck.

#AcademicLiteracies #AcWri #tleap #theory #OpenAccess

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2024/jan/critical-realism-and-academic-writing-why-theory-matters-practice

What do you learn from being cited?

Do you read how others build your work into their own?

I've published relatively little, but #WhatMakesWritingAcademic has been cited by a range of scholars, from feminist #HipHop to #autism in #STEM, and I'm reading it all ...
👀📚👀

#AcWri #WritingStudies #AcademicPublishing #AcademicMastodon

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1295268/full

Looking forward to reading this as soon as the price comes down:

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

#DoctoralWriting #PhD #thesis #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #Genre #AcWri

[Just had a flashback to my former life in #tleap (teaching & learning EAP - English for Academic Purposes) and to the 'inspiration' behind #WhatMakesWritingAcademic: my students would NEVER have been allowed (by the other teachers) to get away with writing 'why *things* matter to *people*'🤣 #AcWri]

My chapter in 'Re-imaginging doctoral writing' argues that #WhatMakesWritingAcademic is emergent, open, and non-reductive.

This allows for it to be diverse whilst also stable within social structures.

#CriticalRealism #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #FamilyResemblance

https://research.baleap.org/book-reviews/re-imagining-doctoral-writing/?amp=1

Comprehensive, sensitive, attentive review of 'Re-imagining doctoral writing' (https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/doctoral/) by Fergal Treanor available here:

https://research.baleap.org/book-reviews/re-imagining-doctoral-writing/?amp=1

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #PhDLife #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #OpenAccess

Paperbacks are in!

1 free copy of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic is yours if you tell me how you've used it/are using it/might use it to work, think, write, research.

Best reply wins🤞🏽

Reply/Email/DM with a postal address (🐌 snail mail)

#AcWri #tleap #CriticalRealism #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #OpenAccess

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

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

"On Tuesday 11th July, Bloomsbury author Julia Molinari will join our Senior Publisher for Education, Alison Baker, to share her first-time author's perspective on her publishing journey." @BloomsburyAcad #WhatMakesWritingAcademic

#AcademicPublishing #AcademicWriting #ECR #AcWri #MastodonAcademic

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing-with-bloomsbury-online-workshops-for-early-career-researchers-tickets-625281302207

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?]

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/