On close reading and slow writing [Multilingua]
Codó, Eva (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Germanística)
Jaspers, Jürgen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Date:	2024
Description:	5 pàg.
Abstract:	In an academic world in the throes of the audit culture, there is mileage in proposals that call for a reduction of research output. But while such a reduction is defensible on principle, and, indeed, a crucial measure to go against excessive output requirements, we are not sure it guarantees superior scholarship. In this commentary, we will suggest that calls for academic degrowth overlook the room for manoeuvre academics already have or should explore more readily, and that a significant downsizing of research output is not without its own disadvantages: it reduces the space for scholarly dialogue that we believe is essential for thinking, and it diminishes the scope for attentive reading without which there is no high-quality writing. We will bring these considerations to bear in discussing our practice at the helm of Multilingua, indicating how we attempt to hammer and chisel our way through the publishing industry.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió de l'autor
Subject:	Audit culture ; Disciplinary self-protection ; Iintellectual dialogue ; Publishing industry ; Wiggle room
Published in:	International journal of the sociology of language, Vol. 2024, Num. 289-290 (2024) , p. 135-139, ISSN 1613-3668

DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2024-0021

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