In case of interest, the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool has just published its guidance on the use of #GenAI in #DoctoralWriting:
Informed comments are welcome as this document has been conceived as a 'living document' responsive to change in an evolving tech landscape.
Morgen darf ich für @CoachingzonenJuttaWergen im Rahmen der #Schreibwoche einen Workshop zu #Zotero geben.
Es wird ein wilder Ritt von den Grundlagen bis ans Eingemachte. Plugins lassen wir erst mal außen vor...
Bin gerade am Feinschliff der letzten Inhalte und freue mich sehr darauf!
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.
"Introduction. This chapter offers six questions, largely without any answers [...]"
A brave opening for an academic paper! 🙃 #AcWri
Finding your voice in research? #academic #science #edchat #HigherEd #University #phdchat #acwri #writing
Enjoyable letter in Nature Biotech about the importance of writing. Good advice, set out logically. I've already fwded to all the grad students I know...
Is the World Bank Research Observer considered refereed publication?
It's 'not traditionally peer-reviewed' but it does send papers out for review to economists (from what I understand).
What would researchers put on CVs?
#AcademicChatter #Economics #Research #AcWri @academicchatter
"Staring at screens is perhaps unavoidable, but the two-dimensional world makes little sense unless we can draw upon a mental armory that we have developed somewhere else."
-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database that Meta allegedly used to train #AI. "Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration." #writing #author #acwri libgen.li
Mal ein etwas anderer Substack
Tarot for Scholars
mit Margy Thomas und Helen Sword
https://substack.com/@scholarshape
#Scholars #Tarot #AcademicWriting #AcWri #HigherEd #academia #AcademicChatter
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
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146570/
Genuine Q. that betrays my ignorance & wish to ditch Ggle:
>>> how are academic citations tracked?
Go*gl* Scholar differs from, e.g., S*man*ic Scholar & Res*ar*ch Gate. And publishers report citations that don't always tally with the above.
⭕ How Did Britain Come to This? is free to read and download here: doi.org/10.31389/lse... ⭕ How Africa Trades is free to read and download here: doi.org/10.31389/lse... ⭕ Decentralised Governance is free to read and download here: doi.org/10.31389/lse... #OpenResearch #OABooks #Funding #AcWri
"As of today, there are 948 citations of 568 Rogue Scholar blog posts discovered by the Crossref Cited-by service"
@mfenner.bsky.social discusses new citation capabilities at Rogue Scholar.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcWri 🧪
Rogue Scholar now shows citati...
Here for #5amwritersclub this morning. Today’s task: ordered flow of ideas
(It’s sort of the “storming” phase of article revisions. You introduce new characters/ideas and *everything* has to adjust!)
Working on the thing
Making other thing wait its turn
Leaving shiny thing off the list altogether
Being fundamentally incapable of writing to a word limit, I have just met my quota of allotted words and know that I must continue and then come back and delete.
At least I have become one with this writing practice. I like to think that it helps me hone my argument.
(This is a happier interpretation than "inadequate outlining on the front end")
#AmWriting #AcWri #WritingPractice #wordcount #DeletingIsWriting
I wrote half a thing, I wrote half a thing!
(This is WAAAY better than the "not having written the thing" that was Friday morning's status. Progress feels GREAT)
And while I'm bragging, I even put the page numbers in the footnotes for all but two of the citations! Is weekend me cool, or what???!!!
