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After much bureaucracy, this event is scheduled 9 July 2025.

It will be advertised asap on #BAAL #BALEAP #DoctoralWriting #AcWri #tleap #EATAW #CUP networks.

It will be in person-hybrid at #OpenUniversity in #MiltonKeynes but due to funding constraints, tickets will be limited.

Email me for info.

Must read asap.

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #WritingCircle #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #knowledge

https://www.multilingual-matters.co.uk/page/detail/?k=9781800419612

Introduction: The Writers' Circle as a Portal to Knowledge-Making

Chapter 1. A Threshold Space of Difference: Introducing the Thursday Circle

Chapter 2. The Yellow Folders Draw Me In: Looking for the Trace

Chapter 3. Surface Tension: Writing in the Shadow of the God View

Chapter 4. HA HA HA: Shaking the Tree of Language

Chapter 5. One Word at a Time: Finding Rhythm in Writing

Chapter 6. Punctuating the Flow: Reflections from Beyond the Circle

Chapter 7. 'I remember a few rogue popcorns': Teaching for the Trace (with Clement Chihota and Aditi Hunma)

Conclusion: Knowledge-Making at the Water Point

This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university by juxtaposing the messiness and deletions of the writing process with the hegemonic imaginary of what research writing should look like. The author uses writing as both a subject and a method of enquiry in an ethnographic deep dive into her long-term engagement with a postgraduate writers' circle in an elite South African university. The book engages with growing global interest in the geopolitics of research writing and its relationship to patterns of epistemic privilege, drawing on current work on decolonising knowledge production. It opens a space to widen and deepen how we imagine the relationship between writing and knowledge-making.

@StephZihms yes, the Manchester Phrasebank is GOOD!

Scott Thornberry & UEFAP were also suggested on X but more as glossaries whereas I wondered about a more substantial resource, one about key terms and concepts that have a history & that are contested (see thread at https://twitter.com/pace_ou/status/1785572527139373518).

My need is more along the lines of https://plato.stanford.edu/, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (which has referenced definitional entries).

Something similar for #tleap, that can be referenced.

Is there an authoritative peer reviewed & referenced #OpenAccess dictionary of #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) with definitions/explanations of common yet slippery concepts eg #AcademicVoice #Criticality #Argument, etc?

#AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicLiteracies

For those curious about #Feminism and its relevance to #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) this event may be of interest:

https://feminismxeap.wordpress.com/

#AppliedLinguistics #AcademicLiteracies #HigherEducation

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

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

Important talk on re-valuing the art of the #BookReview as contribution to knowledge & disciplinary reflexivity.

Relevant to & beyond #AppliedLinguistics & English for Academic Purposes (EAP) communities

#AcademicReading #AcWri #HigherEducation #SlowAcademia #tleap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xwD5qlDEk

[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]

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

Pile of 'What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice' paperbacks by Julia Molinari on a desk with a computer screen as backdrop displaying Bloomsbury's web page of the book.

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

Reposting a CfP by Leeds Language Scholar on #Scholarship #HigherEducation #AppliedLinguisics #tleap #Languages https://twitter.com/pace_ou/status/1691921565066162304

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

To summarise, the book is an ode to the power of academic writing, treating it as an agent of change instead of as ‘a straitjacket, a pigeonhole, a skill,
a generic practice, or a subservient “handmaiden to the disciplines”’ (166).
It is about giving a voice to those students and scholars who are wondering
how to share knowledge in a way that is not currently mainstream. Most
importantly, it is an incredibly empowering book. It gave me, and hopefully
all its future readers, the reasons, tools, arguments, counterarguments and
ways forward to transform academic writing practices towards being more
socially just. I’d sincerely like to thank Julia Molinari for writing it.
Melina Aarnikoivu
Postdoctoral Researcher, Finnish Institute for
Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä

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

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

In case of interest, I've started to collate and curate an eclectic nascent series of talks by international scholars on #DoctoralCommunication:

https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/PACE

Full series of talks is listed here: https://www.open.ac.uk/students/research/system/files/PACE%20EXTRA%20flyer.pdf

#AcademicCommunication #GraduateSchool #OpenUniversity #AcWri #tleap #AcademicReading #Multilingualism #Serendipity

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?]

Cover of A Philosophical Approach to Perceptions of Academic Writing Practices in Higher Education Through a Glass Darkly
By Amanda French

Cover of What Makes Writing Academic:
Rethinking Theory for Practice by Julia Molinari

The draft programme for #BALEAP2023 is now available here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/warwickfoundationstudies/baleapconference2023/conferenceschedule/

#tleap #AcWri #EnglishForAcademicPurposes #BALEAP

Revealing article about "How [...] language proficiency assessments are never about language alone. Language assessments are always also about identity"

#EnglishProficiency #LanguageBias #LinguisticDiscrimination #InherentEnglish vs #TestedEnglish #EnglishLanguageTesting #ELT #TLEAP #AcademicEnglish #HigherEducation #IELTS #AcWri #EnglishForAcademicPurposes

https://www.languageonthemove.com/how-do-universities-decide-whose-english-needs-to-be-tested-for-admission/

#TLEAP

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