Writing For Publication: Liminal Reflections For Academics

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This book focuses on academic writing and how academics who are experts in their fields can translate their expertise into publishable form. The magnitude and speed of the changes that are transforming the global academic landscape produce an ongoing need for literature that interprets the nature of academic work. This book arises from the background discipline of Education, which is a relatively new university subject that draws on the entire knowledge spectrum from the fine arts to the natural sciences. Each chapter addresses an aspect of the conditions of written academic labour in an age of digital publishing: its nature, how it works, and guidance for successful navigation. This book will provide helpful guidance to graduate students, researchers and teachers in universities and higher education, who are united by the challenges of this new world of academic publishing. Foreword......Page 5 Reference......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Introducing the Chapters......Page 12 References......Page 13 Contents......Page 14 About the Editors......Page 15 Contributors......Page 16 Introduction......Page 17 Genres of Academic Writing......Page 20 Towards a Philosophy of Academic Writing......Page 29 References......Page 30 Introduction......Page 32 The Changing ‘Idea’ of the University......Page 34 Becoming an Academic in the Neoliberal University......Page 36 Foucault: Power/Knowledge, Resistance, and Caring for the Self......Page 39 Becoming an Academic Differently......Page 41 References......Page 43 3 Standpoint, Style and Self in Writing......Page 45 ‘What’s Yours Is Mine’......Page 46 Scientific Style vs. Standpoint Positioning......Page 48 Taking a Stand......Page 49 Tone......Page 50 Thinking, Style, and Self......Page 51 References......Page 52 Introduction......Page 54 Writing Kaupapa Māori Research......Page 56 Two Camps on Whether or Not a Literature Review Counts as Research......Page 58 Post-qualitative Research and Māori Education......Page 59 Academic Writing Praxis......Page 60 Infinitely Welcome: An Example of Writing as a Māori Method of Inquiry......Page 62 The Process of Writing the Article......Page 63 Conclusion: Kaupapa Māori and the Power of the Written Word......Page 64 References......Page 65 5 How I Was Found by the Poem, in the Academe......Page 68 A Beginning......Page 69 Surrender-and-Catch......Page 71 Poetic Inquiry......Page 72 New Directions......Page 75 When a Poem Is Published......Page 80 Conclusion......Page 82 References......Page 83 Introduction......Page 85 The Evolution of My Affective Methodology......Page 86 Affective Methodologies: Approach and Philosophical Lens......Page 92 Conclusion......Page 95 References......Page 96 Introduction......Page 97 The Age of the Cosmic......Page 98 First Threshold |the Academic as Parrhesiastes......Page 100 Second Threshold|Describing the Indescribable......Page 101 Interlude......Page 103 Third Threshold|Losses and Gains......Page 104 Conclusion......Page 105 References......Page 107 Prelude......Page 109 Understanding the Context for Collaboration as a Liminal Place......Page 110 Achieving Shared Understandings: What Is Needed......Page 111 Collaborative Writing Within a Broader Contextual Frame......Page 113 On Individualisation, Classification, Commonality, and Discourse......Page 114 Examining an Ethics of Collaborative Praxis......Page 115 The Spiral of Divergence and Convergence......Page 116 Where Collaboration Might Fit in an Ontological Framework......Page 117 Conclusion, Where Some Strands are Interwoven, and Others are Not......Page 118 References......Page 119 Introduction......Page 122 Impostor Phenomenon as a Psychological Construct......Page 123 Academic Identity in the Face of Impostorism......Page 124 The University Context and Impostor Feelings: Challenges Academics Encounter......Page 125 Coping with Impostor Tendencies......Page 127 Impostorism Through a Poststructuralist Lens......Page 129 Forging an Academic Identity in the Liminal Space......Page 131 Beyond the Academic as a Fixed Embodiment: Always and Already Becoming......Page 132 References......Page 135 10 Qualities in the Medium of Academic Writing......Page 138 Quality Assessments and Attributes......Page 139 Qualities and Canons in Sociological Thought......Page 142 Thinking Within the Constraints and Affordances of a Medium......Page 145 The Medium of Academese Versus Content......Page 147 Final Thoughts/Writings......Page 148 References......Page 149 Introduction......Page 151 Conceptual Considerations......Page 152 Online Publishing and Open Access......Page 155 Predatory Publishing......Page 158 Journal Metrics......Page 161 CiteScore Metrics......Page 162 Using These Measures......Page 163 The H-Index: Its Value and Its Weaknesses......Page 164 Research Impact......Page 166 Establishing and Developing a Digital Footprint......Page 167 Social Networking Sites......Page 168 Some Critical Considerations......Page 169 Conclusion......Page 170 References......Page 171