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Just Writing

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 Academic writing is just writing. It shouldn't be a mystery. But it should also be just writing, a way of promoting justice. This is the Just Writing podcast from Julian Stern and Sheine Peart.

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    • Proper Pride, Proper Humility

      Proper Pride, Proper Humility
      Feb 15 2026
      You’re likely to experience some pride as an academic writer. Seeing your name on an article or a book, having a positive response to something you’ve written. And you’re likely to experience some enforced humility as an academic writer. The withering reviews, the failed publication proposals. Here, we talk about the ‘virtuous’ pride, ‘proper pride’, the things we should be proud of (the publications, the positive responses), and the ‘bad’ pride, the things we may be tempted to be proud of but shouldn’t (the publications which simply attack people, the unoriginal piece dressed up in new clothes). It’s like that with humility, too. Peer review often humbles us, even if it helps us improve our writing, and we should never think our writing is (always) going to transform the world: proper humility means understanding the limits of our (nevertheless valuable) work. Being negatively reviewed after publication is also humbling, but perhaps even more humbling is not being read at all, being ignored. Enjoy the ‘good’ pride and accept the ‘good’ humbling moments; try to avoid the ‘bad’ pride (often ego-driven) and try to survive the humiliations. It’s all part of an academic writer’s life.

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      30 min
    • After the Party

      After the Party
      Feb 1 2026
      Last time, the 50th episode, so a party to celebrate. At least, one was deserved. So now it is after the party. Annie Pirrie, an excellent researcher who did a great deal of contract research, wrote the reports and articles out of each project. However, afterwards, she thought ‘but what about this, or that?’ Annie said that she often wrote her most interesting, quirky and original articles after the main project. That’s an interesting idea. ‘After’ is a good time to think, to recover, to re-calibrate, to re-fuel, to rest. If you are bereaved, many people say you should not make big decisions. Perhaps the same goes for writing. When you finish a big project, perhaps a book or a thesis, you should perhaps not go straight onto the next project. Instead, you should think, contemplate, perhaps do a small quirky bit of writing. Or perhaps reading – reading books you might otherwise not read, reading novels, biographies, histories, or other materials. When Julian has researched solitude, he has asked when the best times are for solitude, and many people – children and adults – said, ‘after’, the day after Christmas, the day after a celebration, the hours after a sporting event. Solitude is often experienced ‘after’, and solitude is a good place to think original thoughts about writing. Go on: enjoy the afters.

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      30 min
    • Our 50th Episode: Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

      Our 50th Episode: Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself
      Jan 17 2026

      This is the 50th episode of Just Writing, and I guess it’s time to introduce ourselves. Well, to talk about ‘introductions’ in academic writing. How to set out your stall, how to get people excited or at least emotionally-engaged in your writing. You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

      An introduction to a piece of academic writing will vary from a paragraph or two in an article, to a whole chapter in a book. But we usually start with who we are and why we are here. The ‘who?’ might include personal details: it has become more popular to describe the author’s identity, in order to clarify what biases or advantages they may have, but the personal details may simply refer to previous research on the theme. And the ‘why?’ may include why the research came about, what the intentions of the author are, and so on. Most introductions are written after the rest of the article, chapter or book, but some writers see the introduction as their motivation for the rest of the task, and in that case it may be written first.

      What do we include in the introduction? A guide to the writing to come, and at least a hint at the writing’s conclusion and hoped-for significance – what comes next. What do we leave out? We should avoid over-claiming, or writing condescendingly about other authors or our readers.

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      40 min
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