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Just Writing

Just Writing

著者： Julian Stern
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 Academic writing is just writing. It shouldn't be a mystery. But it should also be just writing, a way of promoting justice. This is the Just Writing podcast from Julian Stern and Sheine Peart.

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  • After-times

    After-times
    2025/10/12
    Researching with young people, Julian found how valuable ‘after-times’ are. The day after a birthday, the time after a big sporting event, the day after Christmas or another public festival. Adults talk about the time after their children leave home, after weddings, and so on. What about the time after a piece of academic writing is complete, a paper or book manuscript or thesis submitted to a journal, publisher, or examiners? What does that feel like? We discuss the mixture of feelings such as euphoria, relief, idleness, and hope – amongst others – and what this tells us about writing, and moving from uncertainty to certainty, from being ‘trapped’ by a writing task to being ‘liberated’ from it. There are also the after-after times, the often depressing ‘so, is that is?’ times – interrupted, perhaps, by the next task, the next article, the next book. And so we move on.

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    23 分
  • Research is the salt of academic life

    Research is the salt of academic life
    2025/09/01
    We are changing gear, as Summer turns to Autumn. Academic writing seems to have seasons, but we’re not sure. All academics say they will work through the Summer holiday, but September is the month of regrets. ‘Holidays are time for blocks of writing’, we say. But they are not. Other things spill over – loose ends at the start of the Summer, preparation at the end, if we’re lucky enough to have no Summer-time teaching. Universities refer to ‘research leave’ (when you research) but don’t refer to ‘teaching leave’ as the time we do teaching. So research is intentionally described as ‘leave’, as a ‘holiday’. This is not good. Let’s forget about seasons, and think instead about seasoning. The writer May Sarton said that ‘solitude is the salt of personhood’ as ‘it brings out the authentic flavour of every experience’. We think research is the salt of academic life: it brings out the flavour of all our work. It keeps us curious, nosey (perhaps knowsy). Sheine and Julian may just be the seasoning we need, the Salt-N-Pepa of academic writing.

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    26 分
  • I Never Knew!

    I Never Knew!
    2025/07/20

    We’ve just been to a university research conference, where academics and doctoral students from all disciplines get together for a couple of days and present papers on their current research. People asked each other what they thought of the conference. The most common response was, ‘I never knew!’ People were astonished at all the fascinating work, how it echoed with their own work even if it was from another discipline, and how there was so much enthusiasm for this aspect of the job. Why didn’t people know this already? Well, the value of conferences is precisely that it allows us to pause – pause from researching and pause from teaching and all the other jobs academics have – and to listen. This is a podcast about academic writing, but academic listening is crucial to the process of writing. Without that curious, enthusiastic listening, it will be all the harder for each of us to write, in turn, with enthusiasm and a sense of what future conference audiences will want to hear from us.

    Boredom is a deadly sin, for academics. Boring writing is like boring talking, it is writing that keeps going long after people have stopped reading, talking that keeps going long after people have stopped listening. So practicing listening is a way of enlivening our own work and becoming more aware of the need to hold our own audiences. Conferences work like this, especially if – as with the conference we have just been at – they are not competitive and hierarchical. Research doesn’t have to be boring. I never knew that!

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    24 分
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