Wednesday, August 10, 2005
WORK THAT STYLE
“Believe it or not,” emails Melbourne University’s Tim van Gelder, “this is the description of a seminar on improving academic writing.”
AT 2.00 PM to 5.15 PM
Friday 12 August, 2005
Prince Philip Theatre (Architecture Building)Panel Discussion: (Re)writing Culture
“Writing Culture” is an invitation to discuss the almost total neglect of writing in academia, in general, and in the social sciences in particular. Rather than confront the notion that style and mood are as determinant as logic, or that anthropologists and cultural studies have a special responsibility to work a style congruent with their subject matter, the prevailing practice assumes that writing will look after itself, and is of no great interest or consequence, presumably because there is an implicit assumption as to the existence of just one, standard, style of distanced, neutral, objectivist, representation, best thought of as invisible or transparent thereby radically truncating the possibilities for invention.
Compared to that, Sydney academic Chris Sheil is almost legible.