Book chapter
100 Words Exactly: The Art of Thesis Drabbling
Doing Rebellious Research: In and beyond the Academy, pp.168-187
Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, Volume: 23, Brill
27/04/2022
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Abstract
The capacity to write sits at the heart of academic work and is crucial to achieving success. For higher degree research students, academic writing calls for various skills, competencies and knowledges, and is experienced as a process of participating and becoming adept in the textual and discursive practices of specific disciplinary cultures. In this chapter, we share our collective experience of experimenting with the genre of ‘drabbles’ as a way to share the theoretical story of our thesis and academic work, and to gesture towards the ways in which higher degree research and writing might become a rebellious pedagogic and performative praxis. Drabbles are short works of fiction of exactly 100 words which explicitly aim to tell a story in a way that is short, sharp and snappy. The drabbles we share here were written while away on a week-long DRAW (Departing Radically in Academic Writing) writing retreat. In 100 words we departed radically from academic writing, to show not tell our thesis stories and our delight and love for words that world. The chapter weaves these together along with our thinking and wondering about our work as a way to, through and for rebellion in thesis and academic writing more broadly.
Details
- Title
- 100 Words Exactly: The Art of Thesis Drabbling
- Creators
- Elizabeth Allotta (Author)Dewi Andriani (Author) - University of QueenslandEmma Cooke (Author)Eloise Doherty (Author)Mel Green (Author)Karen Madden (Author)Renee Mickelburgh (Author) - University of QueenslandMuhammad Ali Musofer (Author)Rebecca Ream (Author)Preeti Vayada (Author)Elizabeth Mackinlay (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Pamela Burnard (Editor) - University of CambridgeLiz Mackinlay (Editor) - Southern Cross UniversityDavid Rousell (Editor) - RMIT UniversityTatjana Dragovic (Editor) - University of Cambridge
- Publication Details
- Doing Rebellious Research: In and beyond the Academy, pp.168-187
- Series
- Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, Volume: 23
- Publisher
- Brill
- Identifiers
- 991013068813302368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter