academic writing

{CALL FOR PAPERS} Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles

17/01/2021 Xian Zhao Leave a comment

Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics extended submission date Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles Submission Date Extension Special Issue on Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics’ Special Issue on Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles will be published in November 2021. The deadline for typescripts’ submissions is extended to September […]

{online event} CERA Webinar Series 2020/21: Educational Research During the Covid – 19 Pandemic

12/01/2021 Xian Zhao Leave a comment

CERA Webinar Series 2020/21: Educational Research During the Covid – 19 Pandemic Register here. Event Webinar 3: Virtual Academic Writing Retreat Event Date 29 Jan 2021 9:00 am – 13:00 pm About the seminar: This virtual writing retreat will be a half day event. Druing this event, we will also have some discussions around ‘personalities, strengths and motivations’ for pursuing a academic career which will […]

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Recently published research articles

21/08/2019 Duygu Candarli Leave a comment

Hello, everyone! I would like to share my recently published research articles with you: Candarli, D., & Jones, S. (2019). Paradigmatic influences on lexical bundles in research articles in the discipline of education. Corpora, 14(2), 237–263. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/cor.2019.0170 Candarli, D. (2018). Changes in L2 writers’ self-reported metalinguistic knowledge of lexical phrases over one academic year. The Language Learning Journal, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2018.1520914 The abstracts are publicly […]

Two more book contributions in ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’

05/04/2017 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Volha and I both have contributions in the book ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’ edited by Siân Etherington and Mark Daubney. This book is based on poster presentations from the IATEFL Research SIG pre-conference event held in Manchester in 2015. Both those posters are on the walls in the B3 corridor in Ellen Wilkinson. Volha’s contribution is […]

Creative Writing for Academics Workshop with Kip Jones

16/02/2017 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Last year, Volha and I went on a course at Bournemouth University called ‘Creative writing for academics’. I wrote about our time there on this Blog, which also included the poem that Volha wrote as part of the course. The workshop also inspired ‘Chronicle of a teacher researcher’ which I read at our LANTERN summer event, Kaleidoscope 2016, and which is about […]

Reflections on BAAL/Routledge Workshop

26/09/2016 Duygu Candarli 3 comments

Please note that the first two paragraphs of this post were written by me, and the last two paragraphs were written by Nahielly. I and Nahielly had the opportunity to give a presentation at BAAL/Routledge Workshop ‘Expectations of and on international students in UK HE’ on 16th September at Manchester Metropolitan University. This workshop brought together researchers, professionals of English […]

Conference experiences

Two free seminars at Institute of Education, UCL, London

15/01/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca? Anna Mauranen Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki, Editor of Applied Linguistics 17:30 Monday 22nd February, 2016 Room 642, 20 Bedford Way, UCL Institute of Education, London, WC1H 0AL As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as a Lingua Franca is highly successful despite manifesting certain non-standard features, […]

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The importance of the article title: another interesting post from ‘The thesis whisperer’

16/12/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

This post looks at the implications of choosing different titles for your article. It also quotes some rather sobering statistics: of the 50 million or so journal articles that are estimated to be circulating out there, most are never cited.

Getting published

Artful Prose: A writing and visual thinking course for postgraduate researchers (MRes, MPhil, PhD), nurturing academic writing and making

15/12/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Min has sent me information for a very interesting (free!) course that is being led by Dr Amanda Ravetz and Dr Myna Trustram, Manchester School of Art, MMU. It is a series of four day workshops looking at the writing experience using art, drama and even bookmaking! To me it sounds like a very novel approach to thinking about writing and […]

Researcher development etc

Taking 30 years to complete the PhD

18/08/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

An interesting story entitled ‘How I finished my PhD …just 30 years after I began“. I haven’t quite decided if this is an encouragement or not. What I think it does do though is show the emotional investment in the data collection stage and the impact that can have on the writing up. Although not comparable with this lady’s experience, […]

Miscellaneous news etc

Reflections on a writing workshop

16/03/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Last week I attended a two day writing workshop in Durham run by the NEDTC. It was a bit of a mixed experience, but I would like to share some reflections on the workshop that might possibly be useful for others too. There were 45 of us from a real cross section of disciplines, with very different projects from around the UK […]

Writing ethnographies

08/01/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

An interesting post on academic writing which looks as if it has follow-on posts to come this month. Might be worth following for a few weeks. http://savageminds.org/2015/01/01/ethnographers-as-writers-an-introduction/

Getting published

Open Access: the basics

22/10/2014 Achilleas Kostoulas One comment

Open Access Week is an annual event that aims to raise awareness of Open Access as a new form of disseminating research output. This year, it takes place from 20th to 26th October. To mark the occasion, I have cross-posted some information about Open Access from my blog, which I hope may be of use to members of the community. […]

Getting published

New App to help with referencing and citations

14/08/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Dear Colleagues At the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick we have recently launched a new citation app (Mastercite). We really hope this app will be of help not only to our own students, but also to those at other universities as they start to learn and practise to reference correctly. Our aim is that when students […]

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