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This article argues that #CriticalRealism
(CR) should develop its own theory of #AcademicWriting
because of CR’s explicit commitment to #HumanEmancipation
and #StratifiedOntology
[1/n]
#AcWri
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2024.2429225#abstract
[2/n] What this means in practice is that:
a) academic writing should always be educative, truthful, and humane;
b) that there exist different approaches to and imaginaries of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
[3/n]
a) commits us to disregarding #IELTS
essays, #GAI
- generated texts, and #hoaxes
as academic;
b) opens up possibilities for academic writing to be, inter alia, #MultiLingual
and #MultiModal
, and generally more re-presentative of the reality it wishes to construe (or portray)
[4/end]
I strongly advocate for a theory of praxis because ‘things do not speak for themselves’. In an #AcWri
context, this means inherited norms about #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
need theorising because in some cases such norms may be harmful, ie they may stymie #HumanEmancipation
(as defined by CR).