📢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...

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.

Implementing academic reading circles in higher education: Exploring perceptions, motivation and outcomes Academic reading is an essential yet challenging skill to teach in higher education. Research shows that academic reading circles (ARC) is a promising…

Newly published research on Academic Reading Circles by
Ament, Tort-Cots, & Pladevall-Ballester (2025) - Great to see this positive work continuing with positive results!

#tleap

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

Saouma BouJaoude – Science Education YouTube video by American University of Beirut

"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...

Interesting video interviews on writing in the academy from literature to science with scholars at the American University of Beirut.

Of interest to academics in Lebanon, the MENA region, and beyond {JM}

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicPublishing
#PACEspace #tleap
www.aub.edu.lb/writers-univ...

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

Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword YouTube video by TED-Ed

I enjoy sharing & deconstructing this with students & research writers, but was today reminded by an undergraduate writer that nominalisations are rife and OK in rap & #HipHop lyrics, and are so for good reasons, eg #rhythm & reality

#AcWri
#Nominalisations
#ZombieNouns
#tleap

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

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/...

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/...

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

Feminism x EAP Symposium [LIVE]: Wed 15 May 2024, 14:00-15:30 BST Activities: Thu 9 - Tue 14 May 2024 Iwona and Sanchia are running an online event on feminism in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). We invite you t...

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

feminismxeap.wordpress.com

#AppliedLinguistics #AcademicLiteracies #HigherEducation

I'm increasingly concerned that #AI (LLMs, to be accurate) is being expediently used in #HigherEducation to generate exemplars of, eg., a #LiteratureReview or #Methods & that this practice is then being justified in terms [1/2]

#AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #tleap #ResearchWriting #AcademicGenre

Critical realism and academic writing: why theory matters for practice Join this event to hear Julia Molinari apply the theory of critical realism to examine academic writing as a potentially more diversified and just social practice.

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
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing Examining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how these changes impact on the nature of the…

Looking forward to reading this as soon as the price comes down:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-an...

#DoctoralWriting #PhD #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #Genre #AcWri

Book Reviews - Alex Ding As part of the Research and Publications Book Review project, Alex Ding talks about book reviews in EAP offering insights into how we might like to take the ...

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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xw...

1A: Increase assistance with English—journals should provide English-language services such as proofreading at no cost to the author. 1B: Abandon “readability” standards—journals should stop evaluating submissions on the basis of “readability”, including how “idiomatic” the English is as well as its “flair” or “style”. 2A: Diversify the canon—philosophers (and journals) should engage with work from a wide range of traditions, not just the mainstream Western canon. 2B: Expand the SEP—articles written for the SEP should be translated into other languages and/or the SEP should commission original entries in other languages. 3A: Increase non-native English speaker representation—editorial boards of journals, admissions committees of graduate programs, etc., should include more non-native speaking philosophers. 3B: Increase cross-linguistic representation—journals should publish material that spotlights non-English language philosophy, especially that which is produced in non-Anglophone

Linguistic injustice as a form of #EpistemicInjustice in #Philosophy (applies to other disciplines, too).

Suggestions👇🏽for levelling the #AcademicPublishing field c/o dailynous.com/2023/11/27/t... @DailyNousEditor (X handle)

#EnglishAsALinguaFranca #tleap #AcWri #ResearchWriting #HigherEducation

[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]

Re-imagining doctoral writing Review: Badenhorst, C., Amell, B., Burford, J., & Peirce, K. P. (2021). Re-imagining doctoral writing. The WAC Clearinghouse. By Fergal Treanor “In a hegemonic system of knowledge producti…

Comprehensive, sensitive, attentive review of 'Re-imagining doctoral writing' (wac.colostate.edu/books/intern...) by Fergal Treanor available here: research.baleap.org/book-reviews...

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #PhDLife #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #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.

Paperbacks are in!

1 free copy of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic is yours if you can 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 snail mail deets🐌

#AcWri #tleap #CriticalRealism #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #OpenAccess