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Is EAP really as inclusive as we assume — or are we missing something crucial beneath the surface?
#ELT #TldrELT #EAP #HigherEducation #Inclusion #AcademicLiteracies

tldrelt.com/2026/03/24/whose-english...

📢Registration for our event is open until 30 June✅

We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
But online places are still available {JM}.
#DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri
#OpenUniversity
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...

AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies Julia Molinari ​ Language technologies (LTs) are not new and a life without them means many things to many people: unimaginable, impractical, unavoidable, undesirable, undemocratic, maybe even a welcome relief. LTs include the familiar (dictionaries, machine translators, spellcheckers) and now the unfamiliar, which is rapidly becoming the new normal: LLMs (Large Language Models) powered by GenAI (GenerativeAI) and, apparently, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) are automating writing in unprecedented ways. I wish to use this talk to press pause, just for a moment, to catch our collective breaths. I would like to halt the dizzying speed at which these technologies are affecting our professional and personal existence by sharing a critical realist perspective (Archer & Maccarini, 2023) on LTs and what it means to be human (Molinari, 2025). This includes reflecting on LTs’ implications for academic literacies broadly understood as multisemiotic modes of communication, which include multilingualism (Lillis & Tuck, 2025). AI Realism entails neither techno-determinism nor techno-enthusiasm nor luddism. Rather, it provides a critical space in which to interrogate why AI has so abruptly irrupted into everyday life and how we might want to respond as educators. For example, it’s no coincidence that ChatGPT was released in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic (Hussain et al., 2024), with significant implications for the development of proctoring and surveillance technologies (McKenna, 2022). It’s also no coincidence that AI is associated with fascist ideologies (McQuillan, 2022). That it remains a black box in terms of how it is trained and by whom also raises concerns for academic writing (Gallagher, 2020). All this presents ideological challenges and opportunities for academic literacies that include, for example, re-visiting what we mean by criticality and agency if these foundational tenets of academi…

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

Screenshot of the JSTOR citation tool. Below the options to download reference files, a note reads: "Always review your references and make any necessary corrections before using. Pay attention to names, capitalization, and dates."

Not @jstor.bsky.social embedding academic literacies into its citation tool. We love to see it!

#AcademicLiteracies #LearningDevelopment

[[With my #AcademicLiteracies #DoctoralWriting #supervisor hat on - a hat which more than ever now includes #AcademicReading - all I can say at this moment in dangerously f*ckd-up & dark times is that #GenAI is doing my head in by messing with everything I've ever valued about a #HigherEducation]]

Submissions | EATAW 2025

Call for conference proposals under the theme:

*** Multilingual Academic Literacies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI ***

Braga, University of Minho, 2, 3, 4 July 2025
Portugal

#EATAW2025
#AcademicLiteracies
#tleap
#GAI
#AcWri

www.eataw2025.com/submissions
www.eataw2025.com/keynote

Language and the Knowledge Economy: Multilingual Scholarly Publishing in Europe This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and the knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens...

I look forward to reading this asap 🔖

#academia #multilingualism #knowledge #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #AcademicPublishing

www.routledge.com/Language-and...

What's the difference between a 'position statement' & a 'policy', please?

What distinguishes them as genres, cf their audience, purpose, rhetorical style, also implementation.

Thanks.
#AcademicSky
#EduSky
#HigherEducation
#Policy
#Genre
#AcademicLiteracies
#RhetoricAndComposition
#WritingStudies

Covers of CW Mills' "The Power Elite" and "The Sociological Imagination'

Covers of several books related to academic writing on a messy desk

Covers of several books related to academic writing on a messy desk

Preparing to write again.

I've laid out those I must not forget to ventriloquise & who need to be heard on matters of #AcademicWriting #AcademicLiteracies in dark times of snake-oil cr@p to 'super-charge' #AcWri & of intellectual #censorship.

[ps CW Mills should be required reading, everywhere]

"you can't learn how to write without writing; it's like teaching people to drive cars while they're not driving [...] why do I have an introduction? Why do I have a literature review? We assume they [students] know it but ..." #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #tleap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ozM...

Writers in the University

I'm really enjoying listening my way through these short interviews on #Multilingualism #AcademicWriting #GlobalAcademia #AcademicPublishing #AcademicLiteracies across cultures & disciplines from #literature to #science & #SocialScience

#WritingToLearn
#ReadingToLearn
www.aub.edu.lb/writers-univ...

Good thread for us to follow #PACEspace, on #feedback 👇🏼

[As an aside, I'm planning an informal #ThursdayMorningCoffee (online & on campus) via @ougradsch.bsky.social in the Spring to share experiences, research, and responses to #SupervisorFeedback]

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies
{JM}

A1
Context is everything.
At #PACEspace (@ougradsch.bsky.social #OpenUniversity) feedback opportunities for developing #AcademicLiteracies in #DoctoralWriting sit alongside supervisor feedback & consist of:
- individual disciplinary consultations on #WritingInProgress
- peer-led #WritingCircles
{JM}

May be of interest to #PACEspace @ougradsch.bsky.social 👇🏼 #AcademicLiteracies

PACE Workshops Block 2 Session 1Writing the Doctorate Commitment, risk, and voice Julia Molinari January 8th 2024

book cover design featuring a stark contrast between text and imagery. The title "Risk in Academic Writing" appears prominently in white text against a deep blue background at the top, followed by the subtitle "Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge." Starting points: ‘How to Books’ on academic writing […] tend to over-generalise, over-simplify, de-skill students […] implicitly and explicitly perpetuating a restricted and deficit model of student competence and language use. The Guides […] tend to focus on how students can imitate existing conventions based on massively problematic assumptions about student homogeneity and the stability of the disciplines (Thesen and Cooper, 2013, p. 4)

Book cover of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition: How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career, Stephen B. Heard Starting points: Legions of undergraduates have been told that scientists should write in the passive voice (and never, ever, write “I”). This advice is wrong. The passive is prevalent in the literature – but it hasn’t always been, and the tide is shifting back towards the active (Heard, 2022, p. 174)

Image of a newspaper article depicting an orange brain against an orange brick wall to represent how writers become alienated from their writing. Starting points Academic writing: why no 'me' in PhD? […] by removing the first person point of view and the active voice from your writing, what you're actually doing is removing yourself. […] This is a big problem since more than half of the academic writing that already exists is on subjects that are difficult to understand for most non-academics. And when you remove the distinctive self (or voice) from your writing, it can become unbearable to read. When you alienate the 'I' from your dissertation, you are taking a big risk: turning your writing into a mere juxtaposition of facts and figures. https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/apr/19/academic-writing-first-person-singular

Wee glance into the sorts of discussions we get into at #PACEspace 😱 {JM}:

kick-starting 2025 with a session on 'Commitment, Risk, and Voice' in #DoctoralWriting #ResearchWriting #AcademicLiteracies ✍️

@ougradsch.bsky.social

#ZombieNouns #Nominalisation #AcWri #PhDLife

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic👀

For reasons I'm not privy to, my followers on here have rocketed. I've no time/capacity to vet or follow back but I immediately block porn & fascists.

The #Gaza genocide is my greatest preoccupation atm. It also (in)directly informs my overall anti-colonial approach to #AcademicLiteracies & #AcWri.

University of Jaffna CALL FOR PAPERS 15 International Research Conference on DECOLONIZING ENGLISH MA [4 ) Prof. Stephan Ma: SUB THEMES San’ University of ‘Auckland i. ot . <b New Zealand * The politics of English in Asia Globalization of English Plenary speakers Technology in communication Local diversity in English } .s Prof. Alessia Cogo Localizing the teaching of English « University of London Multilingualism in South Asia Uk Sociolinguistic issues in the region Prof. Suresh Canagarajah Pennsylvania State University USA IMPORTANT DATES © Registration Opening for presenters (Early Bird) June 10, 2025 © call for Abstracts December 05, 2024 i Registration for presenters [) Abstracts Submission Deadline July 25, 2025 January 15, 2025 © Acceptance Notification ° ® Registration for participants March 15, 2025 | August 01, 2025 © Conference Dates August 11 - 13, 2025 FEES DETAILS WILL BE NOTIFIED More Information delt@univ.jfn.ac.lk FUNDED BY: 194212207403 / +94777215382 EVAN PUGH UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIP, https://www.elt jfn.ac.Ik PENN STATE UNIVERSITY.

Dept. of English Language Teaching University of Jaffna MENTORING ON ACADEMIC PUBLISHING & RESEARCH Manuscripts will be discussed & suggestions offered for submission to promising academic journals Faculty Experts Prof. Alessia Cogo Prof. Stephan May Prot. suresh Canagarajah University of London, University of Auckland, Pennsylvania State UK. New Zealand. University, USA. Editor-in-chief of ELT Editor of Ethnicities Former Editor for TESOL Journal Quarterly 15 of Jun, canista@un Those accepted for mentoring will be Contact Us: notified by 30th June, and will be EA canista@univ.jfn.ac.lk expected to register for the workshop ~ ® +9a777215382 at that point. https://www.elt.jfn.ac.lk

Sharing a #CfP (Call for Proposals) relevant to communities teaching & learning in/with #TESOL #tleap #AppliedLinguistics #GlobalEnglish #AcademicPublishing #Decolonisation #AcademicMentorship #ELT #SocialJustice #MultiLingualism #AcademicLiteracies #AcWri #AcademicWriting

Academic Diary - Goldsmiths Research Online

I'm a humungous fan of @academicdiary.bsky.social's 'Academic Diary' for all kinds of reasons relating to #AcademicLiteracies and to the unapolegetic un-cheapening of intellectual writing & thought.

#AcWri
#OpenAccess, I think: research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...
research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...

Decolonial Subversions

An #OpenAccess #multilingual #multimodal journal committed to decentring western epistemology in the humanities & social sciences: an incentive & opportunity to publish visual, written, acoustic knowledge? {JM}
#AcademicLiteracies
#DoctoralWriting
#AcademicPublishing
#AcWri
decolonialsubversions.org

I 🥰 sharing this with multidisciplinary researchers during #PACEspace sessions:

Helen Sword (cf 'stylish academic writing') is a 💫 force for pumping joy, life, fun, voice, light, love & soul into #AcWri {JM}

#Nominalisations
#ZombieNouns
#AcademicLiteracies
#DoctoralWriting

youtu.be/dNlkHtMgcPQ

Telling that none of my teaching qualifications required me to read #BellHooks

"what forces keep us from [...] having a revolution of values [...] if we are to have peace" (p. 28)

#AcWri
#tleap
#AppliedLinguistics
#AcademicLiteracies

#EpistemicInjustice
#TestimonialInjustice
#TeachingToTransgress

The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences Accompanying The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion this book examines what it means to be a doctoral student in education and the social sciences, providing a guide for those supervising students...

ok, can someone pls explain to me why in my (albeit narrow) #HigherEducation circles, supervisors/ees I come across seem unware of #DoctoralPedagogies (eg www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...)?

(My academic role is complicated by straddling supervisor-postgraduate advisor roles in #AcademicLiteracies)

Professional Academic Communication in English (PACE) online resources Communicating your academic work is central to your life as a postgraduate and scholar. Being able to communicate effectively will ensure that others hear about your research and ideas and that your work will contribute to building knowledge in your specific disciplines. Communicating effectively is something that all scholars have to learn to do, whether this is spoken communication such as presenting at seminars, written communication such as writing theses or journal articles, and increasingly a mixture of these such as academic blogs. The Open University offers a range of programmes to support you in developing these wide-ranging skills.

PACE supports post-graduate researchers at the
#OpenUniversity @ougradsch.bsky.social by providing opportunities to develop the #AcademicLiteracies needed to complete a #Doctorate.

DM or email pace@open.ac.uk for enquiries.

learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/ouconten...

Best of 2023: How do we cultivate deep reading in a digital age? - ABC Religion & Ethics Skimming is the new norm for reading in a digital world — but the difference between skimming and reading with all our intelligence is the difference between fully activated reading brains and their s...

Screen vs paper. This Maryanne Wolf paper suggests reading on paper May boost criticality, creativity, and empathy. www.abc.net.au/religion/mar... #edusky #reading #academicliteracies

Cover of 'A short History of Ethics' Routledge

Ok, so MacIntyre disses Aristotle: Aristotle was 'not a nice man', more of a 'supercilious prig' aka snob (p. 66).

[ntm #WhatMakesWritingAcademic - I don't think 'prig' is on the #AcademicWordList & #GAI probably flags it as 'not academic' but I could be wrong ;-) #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #AcWri]

Some of the resources that inform my talks (not all, but some I recently used to teach)

Julia Molinari, October, 2024, wearing sunglasses and walking against a treed-backdrop

Both went ok as far as I'm concerned ⚡

They raised uncomfortable Q&As about whose standards, rules, reality, facts, epistemic virtues, and justice are served by how we write & publish academically.

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#AcWri
#tleap
#AcademicLiteracies
#SocialJustice
#METM24
#CriticalRealism

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.

Must read asap.
#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #WritingCircle #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #knowledge

www.multilingual-matters.co.uk/page/detail/...

Language is a constitutive force, creating a particular view of reality and of the Self. Producing “things” always involves value – what to produce, what to name the productions, and what the relationship between the producers and the named things will be. Writing things is no exception. No textual staging is ever innocent (including this one). Richardson and St. Pierre (2005, p. 960) Richardson, L., & St. Pierre, E. A. (2005). Writing: A Method of Inquiry. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research, 3rd ed. (pp. 959-978). Sage Publications Ltd.

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

For the record, I don't agree with everything in Bennett's text, eg. unnuanced references to 'knowledge' or that linguistic imperialism is 'irrelevant' but I sympathise with the broader point, namely that knowledge gets lost in translation & in other transductions #AcWri #tleap #AcademicLiteracies

Translating knowledge in the multilingual paradigm: Beyond epistemicide - Karen Bennett, 2023 The term ‘epistemicide’ was first coined by the Portuguese sociologist, Boaventura de Sousa Santos to refer to the systematic eradication by western science of ...

It concerns me bcos of implications it may have for epistemicide, i.e., the killing of knowledge that's not re-presented according to the 'expected frequencies & intenisites' of English Academic Discourse
#AcWri #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #ArtificialIntelligence
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...