1. PROFESSIONAL
SCHOLARLY WRITING IN
A GLOBAL CONTEXT
Seminar for Project FREE-Paglaum Educational Research classes
Dec. 20, 2014
MM Auditorium A, University of St. La Salle , Bacolod City, Philippines

2. Why are we in acade m ia?
 As livelihood
 love of learning and sharing that love
 Idealism - new ways of looking at old problems;
helping create a better world by transmission of
culture as well as transformation of culture through
the modes of:
 Learning
 Critiquing
 Reflection
 Discussion
 Activism

3. Scho larly writing
 writing and publishing in academia for the
purposes of:
 professional self-development and enrichment
 improving instruction
 building professional reputation and expertise
 building parallel careers in:
 research and consultancy
 the speaking/lecture/training circuit
 book publication
 educational development
 “cross-over” fields

4.  “serious writing” – intended for a critical and informed audience,
based on closely-investigated knowledge and posits ideas or
arguments
 Standard forms:
 Abstracts
 Book reports/reviews
 Book chapters
 Books
 Conference papers
 Dissertations
 Essays
 Research article
 Research paper
 Theses
 Translations

5.  Other forms:
 Summaries of knowledge (literature reviews, annotated
catalogues and bibliographies, creating graphical representations
of knowledge and classification schemes, encyclopedia entries,
journal articles)
 Collating the workof others (monographs, collected works,
anthologies)
 Research and planning (generating new knowledge, policy
formulation consultancy)
 Disseminating knowledge outside the academe (film or tv scripts,
public lectures, opinion pieces)
 Technical oradministrative forms (briefs, proofreading, editing,
peer review, proposals, white papers)
 Personal forms (autobiographies, weblogs, memoirs)
 Newerforms (collaborative writing, hypertext, performative
writing/belles-lettres)

6. The g lo balco nte xt
 21st
century challenges and Information Age
demands:
 ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION and RAPIDTECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS are
driving rapid, multiple changes of several magnitudes
 Changes at multiple levels, at rapid rates and overlapping magnitudes (Ogburn’s
Theory of Social Change):
 Technological
 Economic
 Political
 Social and cultural
 Educational
 Environmental
 New and different scholarly writing paradigm:
 Online
 International

7.  Acade m ic Ranking o f Wo rld Unive rsitie s are based on
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) evaluations on :
 Employer review
 Staff/student reviews
 Peer review score
 Citations/staff ratios: how many scholarly articles mentioned the
school?
 International students
 International staff
 ISI – international bibliographic database containing 14,000
peer-reviewed journals
 Scopus Journal Analyzer (www.scopus.com)
 Philippine Journals Online (http://www.philjol.info/ ) – May 1
to July 22, 2009: 100,000 visits from 122 countries; started
May 2008, Open Access System

8. Whe re are yo u in the
g lo balm arke tplace o f ide as?
 Information Age work trends
 Create ideas and information (research and
scholarly work, writing, providing content)
 Process ideas and information (teaching,
media work)
 Move/use ideas and information
(applications in business, industry, “real
life”)

9. No problem can be solved from the same level of
consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

10. No problem can be solved from the same level of
consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein