Types of academic texts

MII7130 Academic Writing and Hypertext

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|Why should one recognize types of academic texts?

• Because different types
are meant for different purposes.
• are written in different ways
• are used and referred to in different ways
• different trust

||Articles

• Means of publishing results of research or development to the community
• Claim, prove, argue, imply
• Aim at impact on the academic community: Offer concepts, methods for others to use
• Main type of academic writing

||Conference papers

• Often preliminary stage of a journal article
• Edited further for journal publication, taking advantage of feedback from peers

||Blog articles

• Approaches journal articles and wiki articles
• Independent of a publisher
Defines its relationship of the community independently?!
Lacks authorisation of an institution.
How can a blog gain an authorized position?

||Collaborative wiki articles (?!)

• Comply with e.g. Wikipedia standards
• (Semi-) automatic feedback, classification, tagging
• (Semi)-automated deletion
• Collaborative editing and revision
• Instant review -> Quick revision

||Essays

• Small scale articles
• Sometimes like newspaper columns
• Oftern argue for a concept, standpoint, or opinion
• Related to study foci
• Personal, sometimes diary like
• Communicative, discussive
Historical blogs?!

||Blog post

• Diary-like
• Web-based
• Essay-like
• Communicative, discussive

||Proposals

• Half-academic
• Propose a research or development project
• Set premises, starting points, brands and concepts
• Establish partnership and consortium
• Frame resources: human, technology, facilities, budget

||Reports

Statements of:
• Work in progress
• Final results and outcomes: demos
• Academic or non-academic

||Reviews

• Evaluate and contextualize someone else's publications
• Establish the value of a publication

||Popularizations

Not academic!
• Purpose: 'market' and make the discipline known
• Not assume systematic referencing
• Wide audience: Avoid disciplinary slang
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|Theses, dissertations

||Monographs

• Master theses
• Doctoral theses
• Senior contributions
• Course books
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|Publication types

• Where texts are published

||Journals, web journals

• Publish articles of a particular discipline and particular focus
• Often define a discipline
Are owned by specialized scientific publishers, scientific societies, e.g.

||Publication series

• Journal-like
• Often irregular publication
Of:
• Departments
• Scientific societies

||Conference proceedings

• Collected by the conference organizer
• Often elaborated to an antology or special issue

||Antologies, edited books, special issues

• Belong to a journal or publication series
• Focuse on a particuolar theme, issue or topic

||Monographs

• Books
• One time, unique
• One or several authors
• Joint writing, contribution of each merged, and blended
• Review practice not guaranteed

||Blogs

Owned by:
• Individuals
• Communities
• Events
• Traditional media
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|Purposes of publication

• Dissertation
• Scientific publication -> discussion
• Course books
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|Assignment

Find an example of each publication type in the field of new media!
• Scientific journal
• Scientific journal article
• Blog arttcle
• Doctoral dissertation
• MA thesis
• Publication series
• Monograph

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