This was a wonderful essay to work on that aligns with my intentional research practices. Thank you to @ccc-journal.bsky.social's editorial team for extending kindness through the process. #academicresearch #citationalpolitics
The course is organised in five blocks. The first covers extended introductions to other students and to feedback cultures, and it includes discussion of shared and differing experiences of and attitudes toward aca-demic writing. The second asks the question “What is good academic writing?” and puts students’ views about this into conversation with debates from the literature around clarity versus the need for specialised lan-guage. One goal of these discussions is to highlight some of the limitations of conventional scholarly writing (especially as articulated by Molinari 2022), so the third block then involves genre experiments and critical reflection on what are sometimes called “alternative” academic forms (see, e.g., Richardson 2002 or Ashmore, Myers, and Potter 1995). The fourth block is oriented to responsible reading, citing, and writing (including citational politics and, in late r iterations of the course, the use of AI tools in writing). The final block focuses on “finishing” and covers practical strategies for writing, editing, and finalising a writing project alongside discussion of how writing relates to thinking. Throughout, students work with t heir own writing projects, including article or chapter drafts as well as shorter experimental texts developed specifically for the course.Teaching Citational Politics as Part of Writing as Thinking
"if we care about citational politics we should also seek to diversify the nature of what is accepted as "academic writing"
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic (my day job also needs decolonising)
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#PhDLife
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