Academic Blogs Research Articles

THE USE OF HYPERTEXT IN ACADEMIC BLOGS WRITTEN IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH - A CASE STUDY

Hyperlinks are frequently employed in academic writing as they provide an easy and convenient way for readers to access additional information. This can include relevant articles, background information, graphics, text, and other resources that help strengthen and develop the author's arguments. In addition, hyperlinks enable readers to obtain additional information from relevant sources, including those using various modes and media, and support the development of new hybrid digital genres for academic communication. Using online academic blogs written in Italian and English, this study examines how hyperlinks support writers' argumentation and the differences in how hypertext is used in these two languages. The analysis includes 888 hyperlinks in 8 randomly chosen academic blogs. The aim of the study is to present quantitatively and qualitatively the types of hyperlinks used in academic blogs, as well as the types of genres included through hyperlinks. Results demonstrate that authors in both languages use the same types of hyperlinks, although their distribution is slightly different. Finally, the study will provide knowledge for teaching the use of hypertext in academic writing in tertiary education courses to second language users.

“People should get their booster”

Abstract Debates around the efficacy and dangers of vaccination have taken on critical importance with the Covid pandemic and WHO naming vaccine hesitancy as a major global health threat. We explore how writers use two types of blog, academic and journalistic, to promote key public health messages around the effectiveness and necessity of Covid-19 vaccinations to a broad, heterogeneous audience. Examining 120 Covid-19 vaccination themed posts from reputable news and academic blog sites, we compare the different ways writers present a stance and take a position towards vaccines and vaccinations in these different interactional contexts. Findings show that both types of bloggers are clearly aware of the need to convey a stance towards their topic and audiences feel entitled to position themselves in relation to vaccination issues, but with different emphases. The study has important implications for how healthcare information is disseminated and persuasion accomplished in these public arenas of discourse.

Feasibility of Academic Blogs as Learning Media for Electromagnetik Induction Material

Feasibility of Academic Blogs as Learning Media for Electromagnetik Induction Material

Why do academics blog? An analysis of audiences, purposes and challenges

​Academics are increasingly being urged to blog in order to expand their audiences, create networks and to learn to write in more reader-friendly style. This paper holds this advocacy up to empirical scrutiny. A content analysis of 100 academic blogs suggests that academics most commonly write about academic work conditions and policy con-texts, share information and provide advice; the intended audience for this work is other higher education staff. We contend that academic blogging may constitute a community of practice in which a hybrid public/private academic operates in a ‘gift economy’. We note, however, that academic blogging is increasingly of interest to institutions, and this may challenge some of the current practices we have recorded. We conclude that there is still much to learn about academic blogging practices.Studies in Higher Education 38(8): 1105–1119 (2013)

Influence of Talent Management, Competence and Placement on Employee Performance (Human Resource Management Literature Review)

In the context of human resource management science, the scientific article "Article Literature Review: The Influence of Talent Management, Competence, and Placement Against Employee Performance" aims to construct a hypothesis of research influence between variables that will be used in subsequent research. This literature review was written using the library's research process, with information from internet sources like Google Scholar, Mendeley, and academic blogs. The findings of this study of the literature are as follows: 1) Talent management has an impact on employee performance; 2) competency has an impact; and 3) placement has an impact.

Teaching Students How to Find and Identify Reliable Online Sources: A Series of Exercises

Online information sources help undergraduate students acquire knowledge and find supporting evidence for their papers. However, this practicality is often clouded with unreliable sources. As such, instructors need better strategies to teach students how to reach reliable online sources and evaluate the accuracy of the online information they obtain. In this article, we introduce a series of exercises to teach students how to identify the reliability of a source, ways to fact-check information, steps to use online search tools effectively, and examples of online academic blogs to utilize and check the reliability of the information that they present, and how to use online data/survey sources. We believe that educating students on identifying and utilizing reliable sources is essential for their intellectual development and ability to conduct their research independently. Therefore, our exercises aim to provide a roadmap for instructors to improve their students’ virtual literacy.

Doctoral pedagogy in digital third space: An investigation of academic blogging

ABSTRACT Academic blogs are international, extramural, outside of institutional structure, obligation, and audit. Their algorithms allow quantitative investigation, but qualitative research on blog practice is rare. This paper offers qualitative insight into academic blog pedagogy using DoctoralWriting as a case study. Here, DoctoralWriting comments-to-posts become data (391 comments giving 129 pages of text), analysed both thematically and using NVivo12 to show the blog’s interactive practice. We became interested in how commenters and academic bloggers create a community of practice. The findings led us to add Third Space theory to community of practice. Emerging from the super-complexity of postcolonial theory, Third Space exists outside of, or between, cultures. That means it can detach from biases, hierarchies and role restrictions. We show blogging’s potential within doctoral education, demonstrate a novel method for understanding academic blogging, and advance the pedagogical use of Third Space theory.

Blogging as a tool to enable students to write more effectively

Blogging is usually associated with the posting of informal texts, but academic blogs have also become quite popular as they facilitate the exchange of ideas in many fields of study. This paper explores the scope of blogging in making tertiary level students more aware of a few important aspects of academic writing. The two objectives of this paper were to determine whether blogging can i) enable students to understand and practice the mechanics of academic writing, and ii) motivate the learners to write longer texts. The study was a quasi-experimental research that was conducted by the researcher in the classroom. The findings indicate a significant difference in the way learners understand the mechanics of academic writing due to blogging. The findings also revealed that learners are more motivated to write longer text while blogging. This study recommends the use of blogging as a tool in order to teach academic writing at the tertiary level. However, the lack of familiarity with technology among a number of students in India is still a cause for concern.

Organizational Leadership through the Massive Transformative Purpose

Purpose: This study aims at justifying the affiliation of the massive transformative purpose as an important item in the aggregate of the proclaimed corporate culture elements. For this reason the bundle of shades in the meaning for the massive transformative purpose will be explored, bearing in mind the main researcher’s interest in outlining the cultural facet of the construct the attributes of which should be further categorized as official and unofficial ones. Methodology: Literature review and critical analysis of academic publications and blogs of business leaders and consultants in the sphere of the exponential organizations are performed in order to identify important shades in the meaning of the massive transformative purpose. The latter are summarized and categorized as basic nuances and new elaboration streams by the application of the mind-map method. Secondary data analysis and an ethnographic research method are used to identify the cultural facets of the construct, based on its shades of meaning. Findings: A set of interconnected nuances in the meaning of the massive transformative purpose is grounded through the performed review and critical analysis of books, scientific articles and blogs. The aforementioned nuances are logically and hierarchically arranged by two useful mind-maps. The outlined cultural facet of the massive transformative purpose is structured into two parts: (1) the first one, containing the core shades of meaning of the construct, and (2) the second one, encompassing the identified new elaboration streams for the construct. Thus, it became possible to propose two new definitions for the massive transformative purpose, embodying the aforementioned parts. In this way, the massive transformative purpose is directly determined as an element of the proclaimed corporate culture, used to formulate and communicate officially the leadership intents of future business development.

How the medium shapes the message: Stance in two forms of book reviews

Book reviews on academic blog sites are becoming increasingly visible and important as they give scholars a space to evaluate research and reach a wider audience. While reviews are a familiar genre in academic journals, their similarity to this more recent incarnation is unclear. While it appears to be the same genre with the same purpose to explicitly evaluate a published text and the contribution of its author, the blog book review operates in a very different interactional context. The question arises, then, whether this is the same genre. Does the channel of communication introduce particular communicative constraints and affordances which make this a different kind of text? Based on 30 book reviews in journals and 30 in a respected academic blog, we explore the similarities and differences in reviewers’ use of stance in these two forms. Findings show that all stance resources were employed by both sets of writers but were more frequent in the blog book reviews. The study thus has important implications for understanding the concept of genre, for analysing rhetorical stance choices, and for novice writers embarking on reviewing in new platforms.

Stance in academic blogs and three‐minute theses

AbstractThis paper reports a cross‐genre study of how academics show authorial stance in two increasingly popular but underexplored academic genres: academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations. Based on a corpus of 75 academic blogs and 75 3MT talks from social sciences, we explore how academics represent themselves and their research to non‐specialist audiences in two very different contexts. We found that the 3MT presenters used more stance resources and took stronger positions, largely by indicating certainty and creating a more visible authorial presence. Academic bloggers, on the other hand, preferred to downplay their commitment and highlight affect. The variations are explained in terms of mode and context, especially the time‐constrained and face‐to‐face competitive nature of the spoken genre and the potential for critical feedback in the blogs. The findings demonstrate the salience of stance in the two genres and role of context in academic communication. It has important implications for scholars who are seeking to take their work to new audiences in perhaps unfamiliar genres.

Constructing a data-based analytic rubric for an academic blog post

Recently, educational stakeholders have seen an accelerated move to online learning within which the ability to correspond effectively depends on good writing skills. Language learners are increasingly being asked to navigate new digital genres, such as academic blogs and discussion boards, without access to empirically-based descriptions of corresponding genre conventions. Furthermore, researchers have utilized multiple methods for assessing writing within this genre, ranging from full credit for completion to rubrics based on complexity, accuracy, and fluency. A genre-based approach to writing assessment would suggest identifying key features of academic blogs, and in turn, utilizing those descriptions to guide learners in improving their writing performance. For this project, six knowledgeable individuals reviewed the academic blog posts written by 148 English as a foreign language university students in response to a prompt on the pros and cons of using technology for language learning. The reviewers sorted the posts into six groups in order of merit, and they described each post with short phrases. This data informed the creation of a blog-specific analytic rubric containing five categories around which the reviewers assessed learners’ written performance: task fulfillment and relevancy, content, organization and balance, genre specific features (i.e., use of emojis and hyperlinks), and language use.

Stance nouns in COVID-19 related blog posts

Abstract Research dissemination through academic blogs creates opportunities for writers to reach wider audiences. With COVID-19, public dissemination of research impacts daily practices, and national and international policies, and in countries like the UK and Spain, The Conversation publishes accessible COVID-19 themed research. Such academic blogs are important to the global academy, yet the role of authorial stance therein is notably under-investigated. This paper presents a corpus-based contrastive analysis of “stance nouns + that/de que” in a comparable corpus of English and Spanish COVID-19 themed academic blogs from The Conversation. The analysis identifies similarities and differences across languages that reflect how COVID-19 is framed in each language. For example, Spanish academics use Possibility and Factualness nouns when self-sourcing their stances with expanding strategies, while English academics use Argument and Idea nouns with external sources in contracting strategies. Overall, this paper adds to current linguistic knowledge on academic blogs and scientific communication surrounding COVID-19.

Implications of Protest and Reform for Domestic Governance in Ethiopia

The nexus between protest–transition–reform situated in a larger frame of Ethiopia’s political dynamics anchored in historical narratives and theoretical debates are presented in this paper. Moreover, the genesis and the dynamics surrounding the rolling out of the post-2018 Ethiopia’s transition are examined from the vantage point of prospects for entrenching a stable democratic dispensation in the country. To this end, the political economy approach, along with presenting ethnographic narratives that are pertinent to the subject under study, is used as an analytical lens. Also, document review of journal articles, official and academic reports, internet blogs, and newspaper and other media posts was undertaken to substantiate findings from primary sources. The paper concludes that the ongoing Ethiopian transition unfolded by paving avenues for opening up space for negotiating unsettled issues surrounding state-society relations in a context of a relatively liberalized political economy. However, the envisioned model of transition is constrained by different factors characterized by a split in the ranks of the ruling coalition, intergroup conflicts, and rising unmet expectations that resulted in the absence of peace and stability. Besides, the prevailing weakness of democratic institutions and polarized inter-ethnic relations, the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic stalled the progress of the transition process.

The Role of the Editor of an Academic Publication Blog

Academic blogging is now a widely used medium for scholarly communication. A substantial body of literature exists on the potential opportunities and challenges that blogging affords to scholars, yet the role of blog editors in facilitating research dissemination and public engagement remains largely overlooked. This paper draws on insights from the development of academic blogs by the London School of Economics between 2010 and 2020. It discusses the demands on blog editors and sets forth a framework for academic institutions and scholars to support editors in their efforts to realize the benefits of academic blogging.

Teaching intercultural citizenship through intercultural service learning in world language education

AbstractGlobalization and internationalization have created a need for dialog among people of different persuasions in our own societies and beyond. Language teachers can meet this challenge through the concepts of intercultural citizenship and intercultural service learning, renewing emphasis on educational and humanistic aims as well as instrumental. Students in an advanced Spanish course volunteered in a school and a legal center, interacting one‐on‐one with unaccompanied minors and immigrants fleeing Central America. The evaluation focused on the impact on learners’ understanding of the society in which they live, and perceptions of their own language learning during their work as active citizens. Data from students' academic blogs and diaries were analyzed thematically. They show a heightened awareness of language competence, as students use their knowledge of Spanish in their voluntary work, and increased intercultural competence in students' reports on their critical evaluation of perspectives and practices in their own culture and those of others.

A tale of two genres: Engaging audiences in academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis presentations

ABSTRACT This paper reports a cross-genre study of how academics engage their audiences in two popular but underexplored academic genres: academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations. Based on a corpus of 65 academic blog posts and 65 3MT presentations from social sciences, we examine how academics establish interpersonal rapport with non-specialist audiences with the aid of engagement resources. The analysis identified new ways of informing and persuading a more diverse audience of their research in both genres. Further analyses revealed more engagement features overall deployed in 3MT presentations, especially those seeking to bring audiences into the discussion by mentioning them explicitly, directing them to think in certain ways, and addressing them with questions. Academic bloggers, in contrast, emphasized shared knowledge and offered more parenthetical commentary. The variations are explained in terms of mode and context, especially the time-constrained and face-to-face competitive context of the spoken genre. The findings have important implications for academics to address their audiences in taking their research beyond specialist insiders, and they shed light on how engagement works in very different academic contexts with different modes.

To Blog or not to Blog? Technology, Blogging from a Pedagogical Consideration and Teaching International Economic Law: Taking Blogging Seriously from the Lens of AfronomicsLaw Blog

Global advances have changed teaching, access to resources and interaction in many ways. In particular, ‘technological advances have further transformed both the practice and teaching of law’. Despite the technological changes, generally, as I have argued in my article, the legal profession’s adoption of technological tools has been slow and evolutionary. Nevertheless, the impact of COVID-19 and restrictive measures adopted by governments in curbing its spread, such as closure of schools, has forced schools to adopt online teaching as an alternative to classroom-based teaching. However, not all schools had the opportunity to immediately move to online teaching. In the Global South and particularly in Least Developing countries where internet usage is limited, exacerbated by the digital divide, online teaching was scarce. In worst scenarios, most schools remain closed. In this article, building on the findings of the TRILA Project Report, and using AfronomicsLaw blog as a case example, I focus on the role of academic blogging as one of the digital tools that has great potential in shaping scholarly development in international economic law in the Global South. The AfronomicsLaw blog, launched less than two years ago, has exponentially grown, and therefore this blog article provides scholars, legal practitioners, policy makers, law students and readers and followers of the blog in general with an opportunity to assess the benefits of academic blogging through its lens.

Visibilidad, impacto y transferencia del conocimiento en revistas científicas de educación: la experiencia de Aula Magna 2.0

El valor de la ciencia para la sociedad es indiscutible, pero para generar un impacto social y educativo, es indispensable saber transferir el conocimiento científico. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la relevancia y el impacto de la difusión de un artículo científico en el proceso de construcción de la ciencia y su transferencia a la sociedad. También pretende valorar la irrupción de nuevos canales de difusión para el aumento de la visibilidad y la transferencia de los avances científicos, y explorar las analíticas del blog académico colaborativo propio del consorcio Aula Magna 2.0 como recurso de difusión de la ciencia para generar impacto.
 El artículo analiza, mediante metodología cuantitativa descriptiva, a partir del análisis empírico de los datos extraídos del blog utilizado por dicho consorcio, su capacidad para propiciar visibilidad, impacto y transferencia del conocimiento en el contexto de las revistas científicas de educación.
 Los principales resultados destacan el valor de los nuevos canales de comunicación de la ciencia, así como la necesidad de nuevos indicadores y criterios para evaluar su impacto. Estos nuevos canales aportan visibilidad a la investigación y capacidad de transferir ese conocimiento, adecuando lenguaje, formato y estilo a los diferentes colectivos receptores del mismo. En el caso del blog Aula Magna 2.0, los datos presentados permiten concluir que es un medio valioso de difusión del conocimiento a través de un espacio de colaboración, a la vez que permite generar impacto social y educativo.

How to create an academic blog: Tone, audience, credibility, and potential currency

This case study offers guidance and advice on creating an effective blog, based on the author?s experiences of running his own blog, hosted on WordPress. The article covers some of the essential issues, including tone, audience, credibility, and potential currency, before outlining three key factors that contribute to a successful blog: time, confidence, and forethought. The article provides help to an academic audience in that it offers suggestions around how to soften academic tone for a general audience as well as how blogging could potentially be used in a meaningful way as a form or formative or summative assessment.