Working on my first book review for a book proposal - it's quite interesting to see the questions they ask.
I'm also working on my own little booklet series that I will self-publish so going to keep some of these questions in mind. #AcademicWriting@academicchatter
I've got a new shirt saying "Scream the text to the end" and I'm feeling this so much at the moment. I'm yelling and yelling at my conclusion. Unfortunately, it's still quite unimpressed.
I recently started applying for grants for my research at my institution.
One thing that has really helped is asking other students who successfully applied for similar grants for materials.
Before I start writing, I've been reverse-outlining their materials so I can focus on the underlying structure. It also gets my brain going re: thinking about where my own citations go.
Super useful for getting comfortable with this new type of writing!
Dr. Molinari talks about "the different ways that academic writing has been conceptualized and how critical realism has allowed (her) to explain what makes them academic."
@CSLee This has me thinking about your EngBlob comics. They've been so well-received by the software community, I think because they make accessible the scientific & academic. Bravo!
Reading a big chapter that I wrote during lockdown 2 and 3. And I'm wondering, if my obvious inability to stick to the thread is due to life being ... different. In any case, it now feels like I have to reshuffle the whole chapter...
How to respond to a reviewer who thinks using 'we' consistently throughout a manuscript (in methods and a little in discussion 'we found' etc) sounds unscientific? @academicchatter#academicchatter#academicwriting
My co-authors and I -- a postdoc with no research funding, a guy who runs a non-profit in Latin America, and a soft-money US academic with almost no access to discretionary $ -- wrote a paper in our free time based on research we conducted and funded out of our own pockets, and now we're gonna be judged for not shelling out a month's pay to make it #openaccess
My maternity leave cover post is now open for applications (deadline 21st Feb) - Lecturer in #AcademicWriting & #ResearcherDevelopment at GCU. 7 months fixed-term with hybrid working (part-time also considered) - happy to chat about the role and team
Has anyone come across journals asking for similarity checks for your manuscripts as you submit them? e.g. a report from Turnitin? I haven't come across this before but would be interested to know if you have... @academicchatter #AcademicWriting#AcademicPublishing
As usual for the new year, I’m getting requests to edit dissertations that have final submission deadlines of ... now. That rarely works well. Editors can only handle so many last-minute manuscripts, and that number is often zero.
So, this seems like a good time to mention: if you’re working on a dissertation or JMP due even at the end of this term and you want it professionally edited, it is not to early to start talking to editors.
Does anyone know of papers on language ideologies on gender-inclusive language based on the idea that languages that have a (morphological) neutral gender such as German would have it easier (although it's actually unrelated)? Can't find anything on THIS specifically. Thanks!!
I just realized that one of my Twitter threads, then followed by a peer-reviewed paper in English (meanwhile published in open access), has been plagiarized in a publication in a different language. What would you do? I'm considering approaching the journal. #AcademicTwitter#AcademicWriting#Publications#Publishing
Small reminder that #OpenAccess works even more easily when universities collectively decide to support it: In the Netherlands, articles and book chapters can be published in Open Access regardless of ANY restrictive publishers' guidelines. The way to go imo! #OpenScience#Academia#AcademicWriting
Currently writing an article that should be 8,000 words. I am now at 17,000 and I, as a beginner in professional academic writing, need some advice. I know I am the kind of person who thinks through writing. This means that I have probably written a lot that can be cut and left out.
But how do I learn to write reasonably lengthy papers? I swear I thought my topic and questions could be addressed in 8,000 words. I had an outline ... with word counts per section. Still, it went completely off the rails.