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Can academic writing be engaging? Takeaways from a writing workshop
The issue is how to write, and the key to this is to be taught how to read, to identify core arguments, and to recognise the spine of an argument.
Recently, I had the privilege of participating as a mentor in a writing workshop initiative sponsored by the Journal of Urban Studies and Review of Urban Affairs, (June 9-14, 2023, Goa) in which I walked selected applicants through the nitty gritty of academic writing, its features and protocols. While the primary purpose of the workshop was to help young scholars of urban studies augment the quality of their academic articles, the actual experience went far beyond this initial goal.
It generated exciting conversations that brought to the fore the gaps in higher education in India and the pressures faced by young academics from the emerging ecosystem of academic publications and rankings. The workshop was a productive exercise and underscored the pressing need for hands-on and interactive interventions to plug the gaps in the teaching of the Humanities and Social Science programmes.
Publishing and higher education
Over the last two decades, two tendencies have become pronounced in India’s ecosystem of higher education. One is the compulsion to publish, which has become the basis for promotion, for dissertation submissions and recruitment. The other is to participate in the call for the internationalisation of education, which is rhetorically powerful but remains vague at the level of the actual implementation....
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