Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Your discourse___Tips on language
Typically an academic text in arts and humanities is from 2500 to 7000 words, depending on whether it is written as a conference paper or as a journal article. The higher number is what would be expected for a journal article where you would develop your ideas on a deeper level. The lower number is what would be expected for a conference paper, which is much more of a survey, broad outline type of text.
For exhibition or funding applications there may also be cases where you will be required to make short submissions that are limited to 2 pages and sometimes even only to 1 page, including images. These are far more difficult to manage than the longer ones since the essence of a full paper will then need to be squished into a summary of 1000 words or less.
For all these types of texts, here are some tips on language:
Your discourse___First person or passive voice?
This is a tricky subject and I will try to look at it from different angles: Should your text be of a personal nature, flowing more or less like a narrative or should it be impersonal and objective, adopting a critical stance to your own output? Or should it be a hybrid of the two, where you switch from one mode to the other in different parts of your paper?
Many authors who write on the theory of creative practices suggest that these texts can also be seen as narratives that are strongly referenced, tracing this notion back to John Dewey and his famed book "Art as Experience." Elizabeth Grierson and Laura Brierly advocate a narrative stance to the extent that the title of their book on practice based research even incorporates the word "narrative." Graeme Sullivan is yet another author who places emphasis on narrative as a tool for practice based academic discourse.
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