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The Open Book

Stories of Academic Life and Writing or Where We Know Things

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Ninna Meier

    1. Aalborg University, Denmark

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  2. Charlotte Wegener

    1. Aalborg University, Denmark

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  • This book expands the size and shape of the very serious playground that is academic work and we believe the way forward is to examine and fine-tune our most precious instrument in research: writing.
  • Writing is our most important means of communication and dissemination of results within and beyond academia. However, the process and practice of academic writing is often left out of important international agendas such as Open Science, innovation and impact.
  • This, we claim, is a prerequisite for more academic work that heads the Open Science calls for impact beyond academia and a first step towards more democratic and engaged ways of interaction between the scientific community and society.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Torn Apart and Put Together, Slowly, Clumsily, Over Time

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 1-7

  3. What if Knowledge is also Tied to Places?

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 9-18

  4. Rest, Speed, and Recovery Time

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 19-31

  5. Comforting and Very Sad at the Same Time

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 33-37

  6. That’s Okay, That’s Life!

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 39-47

  7. To Stay with it and Don’t Run Away

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 49-58

  8. Luggage

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 59-69

  9. Sleep, Pretty Darling, Do not Cry

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 71-79

  10. I’ve Told the Truth, I Didn’t Come to Fool You

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener
    Pages 81-86

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 87-88
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About this book

The Open Book is a radical genre blend: it is an experimental co-memoir exploring the role of writing in academia. It contains stories about life without censoring and without distinguishing between traditional work/life domains and academic/non-academic ways of writing. This is done through discussions of conferences, research collaborations, supervision, taboo pleasures of ‘fun’ writing projects, the temptations of other work, and the everyday life encounters and experiences that stimulate academic thought and writing. Some of the main characters you will meet are researchers, their colleagues and students, sons and daughters, mothers and grandmothers, husbands (past and present), supervisors, pets, old and new friends, and creatures from myths and dreams. Some of the settings include kitchens, fireplaces, couches, gardens, universities, cars, and trains. These characters and places are all there to help examine what the above elements of an ordinary human life might mean in research and for research. Thus, it becomes possible for you as a reader to recognize the stories as both truly human and genuinely academic. This is the first book in a series of publications and projects from the Open Writing Community: a collaboration of academics from different disciplines and countries that seeks to push the boundaries of how we understand and practice academic work and writing.

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  • Aalborg University, Denmark

    Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener

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