2017
DOI: 10.1177/1077800417736334
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Post-Academic Writing: Human Writing for Human Readers

Abstract: Academic writing is regularly criticized for its obscure and turgid prose, for its over-theoretical approach, and its reliance on jargon. In this essay, I suggest researchers and writers, especially qualitative inquirers, should move toward a more open and accessible style of “post-academic” writing. Put simply, post-academic writing is human writing for human readers and is at its best when it takes on a storytelling form. The essay features discussion of seven ways of becoming post-academic writers.

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“…For me, human writing is always an attempt to connect with human readers, to achieve even more adventurous couplings, to suggest that we experiment with more creative ways of being human, to make (even) our academic stories actually sound human . (adapted from Badley, 2019, p. 9)…”
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“…For me, human writing is always an attempt to connect with human readers, to achieve even more adventurous couplings, to suggest that we experiment with more creative ways of being human, to make (even) our academic stories actually sound human . (adapted from Badley, 2019, p. 9)…”
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“…Overall, why do I continue to write now, now that I am an academic no more? One reason is that I write now because I have entered another sort of life (see Badley, 2014), a post-academic sort of life (see Badley, 2019), where I can continue with my own playful and serious adventures in reflecting and thinking, in essaying and writing as methods of inquiry. My post-academic sort of life helps me become a counter-life writer, a performer who can adopt different roles to suit any stance I want to add my small voice to ongoing conversations.…”
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“…Presenting a workshop on writing came from a place of personal growth and frustration-the authors both struggle with finding time to write, have anecdotally heard from others how challenging it is to find a topic to write about (and the associated anxiety that what someone is writing about is not 'important' enough to submit to the literature), and general frustration around the unnecessarily complex language used in academic writing. The audience for scholarly writing is often a small group of peers, which makes it even more intimidating to enter the scholarly conversation (Badley 2019).…”
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“…This advocacy reminds me of Badley's work (2016Badley's work ( , 2017 where he champions post-academic writing. Badley (2017) discusses traditional academic texts as embodying the failures of academics to embrace their humanity in favor of claiming impartiality and objectivity. In so doing, academia has created a legion of disembodied scholars and fragmented thinkers.…”
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“…Drawing on the habitus made popular by St. Pierre of issuing provocations, Badley (2017) asks, "how might we, as students, teachers, and researchers, switch away from producing sterile, voiceless academic prose toward creating scholarly writing that is warm, inviting and intensely personal?" (p. 3).…”
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