100 words exactly: The art of thesis drabbling.

Elizabeth Allotta, Dewi Andriani, Emma Cooke, Eloise Doherty, Mel Green, Karen Madden, Renee Mickelburgh, Muhammad Ali Musofer, Rebecca Ream, Preeti Vayada, Elizabeth Mackinlay

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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 confined space in a way that is short, sharp and snappy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDoing rebellious research:
Subtitle of host publicationin and beyond the academy
EditorsPamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay, David Rousell, Tatjana Dragovic
Place of PublicationLeiden, The Netherlands
PublisherBrill
Chapter10
Pages168-187
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9789004516069
ISBN (Print)9789004516052
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameCritical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching
PublisherBrill

Keywords

  • drabbles
  • Thesis
  • academic writing
  • higher degree research
  • performative praxis

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