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serenissimaj.bsky.social
*Informed* comments on AI & the #PhD #doctorate welcome.

Disclaimer: there's no such thing as a 'neutral' position on AI but there is such a thing as an informed, principle-based value-driven one.

#HigherEducation
#DoctoralWriting
#GenAI
#AcWri
#PhDLife
#PhDChat
#tleap
#EAPchat
#AcademicLiteracies
pacespaceou.bsky.social PACE Graduate School Open University @pacespaceou.bsky.social · Oct 1
Position statement and guidance on generative AI and doctoral education

@ougradsch.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social #GenAI

university.open.ac.uk/students/res...

2026 updates include:

- choosing, refusing, resisting GenAI
- declaration for who chooses to use it
- resources and references
Key messages: The Graduate School’s core position is that doctoral researchers are responsible and accountable for conducting their research and authoring their thesis. Researchers, supervisors, and examiners are jointly responsible for upholding the academic integrity of the doctorate through open discussions around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Integrity is strengthened when researchers understand technologies well enough to opt out, opt in, refuse, resist, adopt, adapt, critique, or repurpose. This guidance draws on international, national, and institutional good practice for the responsible use of GenAI in doctoral education and assessment. It provides principles to guide decision-making rather than encourage or discourage specific uses. If you choose to use GenAI, institutionally licensed GenAI is recommended. At the time of writing, The Open University's (OU) institutional version is Copilot. Specific cases are exemplified with caveats: changes in GenAI technology, regulation, and safeguarding warrant ongoing case-by-case judgements. Declarations of GenAI use are required at all stages of doctoral research (see section 8). Adaptable templates for such declarations are given in the Appendix.
October 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM
joshthorpe.bsky.social
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
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...
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2024 at 4:32 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
[[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]]
February 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
Submissions | EATAW 2025
www.eataw2025.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
I look forward to reading this asap 🔖

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

www.routledge.com/Language-and...
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...
www.routledge.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
January 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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]
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
January 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
"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...
Saouma BouJaoude – Science Education
YouTube video by American University of Beirut
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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...
Writers in the University
www.aub.edu.lb
January 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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.
January 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
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
December 5, 2024 at 1:11 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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...
Academic Diary - Goldsmiths Research Online
research.gold.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 8:52 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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 bell hooks' "teaching to transgress education as the practice of freedom"
November 23, 2024 at 11:25 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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)
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...
www.routledge.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:32 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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]
Cover of 'A short History of Ethics' Routledge
October 25, 2024 at 6:54 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
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
October 22, 2024 at 10:34 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
Must read asap.
#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #WritingCircle #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #knowledge

www.multilingual-matters.co.uk/page/detail/...
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.
October 7, 2024 at 9:39 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
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.
September 24, 2024 at 11:25 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
September 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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/...
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 ...
journals.sagepub.com
September 24, 2024 at 8:56 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
Publishing a 6-prompt exchange with a free #GPT on 'what makes writing academic' to highlight its contradictions, the paucity of the scholarly resources it's trained on and how it doesn't answer the question.

#AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #ArtificialIntelligence
academicemergence.press/current-conv...
Holding AIs to account – Academic Emergence
academicemergence.press
September 21, 2024 at 2:13 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
April 30, 2024 at 9:23 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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
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...
feminismxeap.wordpress.com
March 17, 2024 at 8:56 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
These #AcWri workshops are powerful:

"Neoliberal publication models have led to the gaming of citations by authors, the manipulation of bibliometric data by journal editors, and [lots more]"

#AcademicPublishing
#AcademicLiteracies
#HigherEducation
#SocialJustice

www.geog.ox.ac.uk/events/call-...
Call for Applications - Writing Workshops: Defiant Scholarship in Africa
www.geog.ox.ac.uk
February 24, 2024 at 11:20 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
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...
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.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 7, 2024 at 8:41 PM