Well-Written: Pivoting Against the Socialization of Academic Writing

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Thirteen
  In Roundtable Session: Navigating Academic Spaces (Table 4)

Abstract

With the critical importance of writing in academia, this study challenges both the outcome and process of writing socialization that reinforces the individual and Eurocentric, sterilized version of academic writing. Utilizing duoethnography, the study explores anti-racist, anti-colonial writing transfer through the resistance and reframing of writing socialization to ultimately unpack harmful writing practices; the negotiations and challenges to “perform;” and how writing (re)manifests to silence, shut-out, and minimize marginalized communities. Through individual journal reflections, responsive comments, and dialogues, we unpack our own trajectories and identities as writers, and in doing so, offer insight and strategies of what it means to rehumanize the writing journey to reimagine what is the “well-written.”

Authors

• Ahjah M Johnson, Miami University (OH)
  Presenting Author

• Katherine S. Cho, Loyola University Chicago
  Presenting Author