Writing For Publication: Liminal Reflections For Academics

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