Responsibility in Academic Writing : A Dialogue of the Dead
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Smissaert, Chris
Jalonen, Kari
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QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, Volume 24, issue 9, pp. 704-711
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Drawing on the notion of answerability introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin, this article inquires into our moral responsibility as academic writers to others for what and how we write. According to Bakhtin, it is a difficult task to be answerable from one’s unique place in being and it is tempting to seek some sort of alibi, be it a theoretical principle, an aesthetic ideal, or a larger whole, and to play the roles therein. To break away from these domains, in search of some sort of ethical authorship, we engage in a Menippean dialogue. Exploring responsibility in such a satirical dialogue creates an awareness of the roles we easily hide behind, draws attention to what these roles might do to our writing, and enables us to try out other roles as we allow ourselves to not be so deadly serious in our writing.Description
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Smissaert, C & Jalonen, K 2018, 'Responsibility in Academic Writing : A Dialogue of the Dead', QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 704-711. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417734008