Dates and Times
18 March 2019
12:30 - 13:30
Event for
Location
Organiser
Centre for Creative & Cultural Research
Speakers
Associate Professor Paul Magee
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PUBLIC SEMINAR: Writing as Discovery: Investigating a Hidden Component of Scholarly Method
Associate Professor Paul Magee will present a seminar on his recent research into the processes of academic writing and the generation of knowledge.
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Seminar abstract
Is writing an academic paper or book really just a matter of 'writing up' a set of pre-established results? Reporting on a pilot study towards a large-scale exploration of the heuristic dimensions of scholarly and scientific composition, this paper analyses interviews with three leading academic authors: literary scholars Derek Attridge (York) and Hannah Sullivan (Oxford), and linguist Michael Hoey (formerly Liverpool). All three confirm that the act of writing articles and monographs serves to generate ideas they had not realised they were working on, whether through the internal pressure of their concepts as they unfold, the happy finds of revision, or the influence of external agencies in the inherently social process of publication. A coda points to related findings in the sciences, suggesting that, far from ancillary, the act of writing papers may well constitute a key plank of method in those disciplines as well.
Short bio note
Paul Magee is Associate Professor of Poetry in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. He is currently working on The Collection of Space, which is in verse, as well as a monograph based on interviews with poets, entitled A Window of Two Seconds: On the Composition of Poetic Thought.
This seminar is presented by the Centre for Creative & Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts & Design.
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.