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Based on the seminal model on unified theory of acceptance and use of technology
(UTAUT) (Venkatesh, Morris, Gordon, & Davis, 2003), we will develop a questionnaire
that aims at determining young researchers’ web 2.0 behavior. Additionally, a second
questionnaire will be distributed, measuring factors that support or inhibit individuals’
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1) New technologies are enabling more open and collaborative research but cultural and institutional changes are also needed for transformation.
2) Emerging digital scholarly works take many forms but quality control and sustainability remain issues.
3) Researchers value traditional dissemination channels and peer review but see room for reform; data sharing is growing in some fields.
4) Adoption of new tools like social media is increasing but remains selective; benefits must be clear and integrate with established practices.
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The present paper will investigate how web 2.0 tools can contribute to the goal
of sharing (tacit) knowledge amongst young researchers from different disciplines, and
investigate the factors influencing the take-up of such tools. To this end, we will first
describe how a Dutch university has addressed this issue by means of a blog that is
developed to provide support and help for academic researchers by using information
technology (SHARE-IT). Next to providing an overview of the initiative, we will
describe how young researchers’ perceptions and attitudes of such blogs can be assessed.
Based on the seminal model on unified theory of acceptance and use of technology
(UTAUT) (Venkatesh, Morris, Gordon, & Davis, 2003), we will develop a questionnaire
that aims at determining young researchers’ web 2.0 behavior. Additionally, a second
questionnaire will be distributed, measuring factors that support or inhibit individuals’
knowledge sharing intentions (Bock, Zmund, Kim, & Lee, 2005). By contrasting the
findings with the results of similar research in the UK (Procter, Williams, & Stewart,
2010), we will then be able to provide valuable insights on the way young researchers,
across countries, approach and perceive blogs and other web 2.0 technologies.
Starting young: How the inclusion of student scholarship in repositories bene...Andrea Schuler
Presented at Open Repositories 2018, Bozeman, MT. Abstract: Open access outreach at colleges and universities tends to focus on faculty. Student work captured in repositories is generally theses and dissertations, deposited by rote as a last step before graduation. This leaves a large student population and a large body of their work under focused-on and underserved. This presentation suggests that educating students about scholarly sharing practices and capturing student work beyond ETDs from the very beginning of their careers not only preserves valuable scholarship otherwise at risk of becoming inaccessible, but begins to build openness into research practices and grow a sustainable open ecosystem. Many students will go onto graduate school and enter academia, becoming the next generation of authors who are primed to advocate for and take advantage of opportunities to openly share their work. The presentation will discuss benefits of adding student work to institutional repositories; small-scale case studies of gathering and sharing student work beyond ETDs; lessons learned; and on-going challenges. After attending this session, participants will have a stronger understanding of some of the considerations of including student work in repositories and be able to apply the discussed case studies as inspiration for outreach, education, and collection-building at their own institution.
Building bridges between academic tribes: Group Blogging for young researcher...Martin Rehm
We will present results of an experiment that has fostered a pro-active (tacit) knowledge exchange between young researchers across academic disciplines. To this end, we will describe how a university has created a group blog that provides support and help for academic researchers by using information technology. Moreover, we will present findings on young researchers’ behavior and willingness to openly share their knowledge in the context of web 2.0 technologies.
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Six studies on changing research practices are summarized. Key findings include:
1) New technologies are enabling more open and collaborative research but cultural and institutional changes are also needed for transformation.
2) Emerging digital scholarly works take many forms but quality control and sustainability remain issues.
3) Researchers value traditional dissemination channels and peer review but see room for reform; data sharing is growing in some fields.
4) Adoption of new tools like social media is increasing but remains selective; benefits must be clear and integrate with established practices.
Notes from my MRes dissertation on 'Research practices in transition'. Online Mres in Educational and Social research, Institute of Education, University of London
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The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty text
2
Action Research Traditions and Knowledge Interests
As we discussed in Chapter 1, action research is a cover term for several approaches that have emerged from different traditions. Everyone who uses action research for a dissertation should be steeped in the particular tradition they are working out of and its attendant methodological, epistemological, and political dilemmas (e.g., participatory action research [PAR], teacher research, community-based participatory research, etc.). We do not pretend to provide this level of grounding in this chapter, but we do try to provide some sense of how these traditions relate to each other and where students and faculty can go for more extensive accounts. There are several historical overviews of action research, but most are told from a particular intellectual and social tradition, such as the overviews provided by Anderson et al. (2007, practitioner research); Argyris, Putnam, and Smith (1985, action science); Bullough and Pinnegar (2001, self-study); Chambers (1997, participatory rural appraisal); Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1993, teacher research); Fals Borda (2001, participatory action research); Greenwood and Levin (2006, action research); and Maguire (1987b, feminist participatory action research). In this section, we will try to be as inclusive as possible so that students consulting this book for guidance on their dissertations can find their particular tradition of action research represented. There is also a need for a participatory dialogue among these traditions, which academic departmentalization has tended to balkanize into self-contained scholarly communities and bibliographies.
Historians are in the business of creating—not discovering or interpreting—historical meaning. In this chapter, we have done our best to get our “facts” straight, but the meaning one makes of them will depend on who is telling the story. To our knowledge, no attempt at a comprehensive history of action research exists, and our intent is not to provide one here. While the previous chapter attempted to offer some common elements of action research, there may be as much variation across action research traditions as there is between action research and some mainstream approaches to research. Some action research is group oriented and some is individual oriented; some is done by those within the setting and some is done by change agents from outside the organization in collaboration with insiders; and some is highly participatory and some is much less so. Similarly, some see the goal of action research as improving practice or developing individuals, whereas others see its goal as transforming practice, participants, organizations, or, in some cases, even society. Debates rage within action research around these issues.
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TRANSLATION AND TRANSFER:
INTERDISCIPLINARY WRITING AND COMMUNICATION
Denise COMER
Thompson Writing Program, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
ABSTRACT
As institutions of higher learning make growing numbers
of interdisciplinary faculty hires, establish ever more
interdisciplinary units, develop interdisciplinary curricula,
and pursue growth sectors such as global and online
education, the ability to write effectively across
disciplinary boundaries is becoming ever more vital, and
ever more complex. The rapidly changing and expanding
academic climate lends urgency for all students, faculty,
staff, and administrators not only to learn how to
communicate across disciplines, but also to reflect
meaningfully on why they might want to do so. Drawing
on David Russell’s activity theory and other scholarship on
writing transfer, this paper argues that scholars bear a
responsibility to honor and propagate their own
discipline’s discourse conventions even as they also must
develop strategies for effective interdisciplinary
communication through writing.
1
Keywords: Writing Transfer, Writing, Interdisciplinary
Communication.
1. INTRODUCTION
“Most public intellectuals as well as experts in future
studies would agree that the increasingly global society of
the first half of the twenty-first century will be
characterized by increasing connectivity, diversity, scale,
and rapidity of change…. [S]mall events on one part of the
planet and in one sphere of human existence can now end
up having large and relatively rapid effects on other parts
of the planet and in other spheres of human existence. …
Coping with this complexity will require a new way of
understanding—one that does not rely on having only a
single viewpoint.” [1]
One need not be involved in “future studies” or even
“interdisciplinary studies” to find ways in which
1
This paper is derived from a keynote address, “Academic Writing for
Inter-Disciplinary Communication,” that I delivered at the 2013
International Conference on Education and Information Systems,
Technologies and Applications (July 9-12, 2013; Orlando, Florida). I am
grateful for the input of the audience at the address, as well as feedback
on a subsequent draft from participants in the August 2013 Duke
University Postdoctoral Summer Seminar in Teaching Writing.
interdisciplinary communication already impacts the work
of the academy.
As postsecondary institutions make growing numbers of
interdisciplinary faculty hires, establish more
interdisciplinary units, develop interdisciplinary curricula,
and pursue growth sectors such as global and online
education, the ability to write effectively across disciplinary
boundaries is becoming ever more vital, and ever more
complex. The rapidly changing and expanding academic
climate lends urgency fo ...
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responsibility to honor and propagate their own
discipline’s discourse conventions even as they also must
develop strategies for effective interdisciplinary
communication through writing.
1
Keywords: Writing Transfer, Writing, Interdisciplinary
Communication.
1. INTRODUCTION
“Most public intellectuals as well as experts in future
studies would agree that the increasingly global society of
the first half of the twenty-first century will be
characterized by increasing connectivity, diversity, scale,
and rapidity of change…. [S]mall events on one part of the
planet and in one sphere of human existence can now end
up having large and relatively rapid effects on other parts
of the planet and in other spheres of human existence. …
Coping with this complexity will require a new way of
understanding—one that does not rely on having only a
single viewpoint.” [1]
One need not be involved in “future studies” or even
“interdisciplinary studies” to find ways in which
1
This paper is derived from a keynote address, “Academic Writing for
Inter-Disciplinary Communication,” that I delivered at the 2013
International Conference on Education and Information Systems,
Technologies and Applications (July 9-12, 2013; Orlando, Florida). I am
grateful for the input of the audience at the address, as well as feedback
on a subsequent draft from participants in the August 2013 Duke
University Postdoctoral Summer Seminar in Teaching Writing.
interdisciplinary communication already impacts the work
of the academy.
As postsecondary institutions make growing numbers of
interdisciplinary faculty hires, establish more
interdisciplinary units, develop interdisciplinary curricula,
and pursue growth sectors such as global and online
education, the ability to write effectively across disciplinary
boundaries is becoming ever more vital, and ever more
complex. The rapidly changing and expanding academic
climate lends urgency fo ...
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A tale of two genres: Engaging audiences in academic blogs and
three-minute thesis presentations
Hang (Joanna) Zou and Ken Hyland
Abstract
This paper reports a cross-genre study of how academics engage their audiences in two
popular but underexplored academic genres: academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis (3MT)
presentations. Based on a corpus of 65 academic blog posts and 65 3MT presentations from
social sciences, we examine how academics establish interpersonal rapport with non-
specialist audiences with the aid of engagement resources. The analysis identified new ways
of informing and persuading a more diverse audience of their research in both genres. Further
analyses revealed more engagement features overall deployed in 3MT presentations,
especially those seeking to bring audiences into the discussion by mentioning them explicitly,
directing them to think in certain ways, and addressing them with questions. Academic
bloggers, in contrast, emphasised shared knowledge and offered more parenthetical
commentary. The variations are explained in terms of mode and context especially the time-
constrained and face-to-face competitive context of the spoken genre. The findings have
important implications for academics to address their audiences in taking their research
beyond specialist insiders, and shed light on how engagement works in very different
academic contexts with different mode.
Key words: academic blogs; 3MT presentations; engagement; interaction; mode
1. Introduction
Academia, perhaps more than ever before, is a very competitive place. It is no longer
sufficient to work hard, gain a research degree and produce a regular trickle of papers. Today,
research students are often expected to have published several papers before they graduate
and to produce even more to secure tenure and gain promotion. Earning a reputation,
however, has never been tougher, with almost 7.8 million researchers worldwide in 2013,
(UNESCO, 2017) producing some 3 million articles (Johnson et al, 2018). Universities,
moreover, are increasingly anxious to discard their ivory tower image and make research
2. 2
available to wider taxpaying publics, inevitably passing this responsibility to academics by
incentivising ‘knowledge exchange’ and ‘outreach’ activities.
These developments have led to the emergence of new genres which both reflect academic
competitiveness and embrace the call to take research beyond the narrow realms of
specialists. We explore two of these genres in this paper: academic blogs and 3MT
presentations. But while both genres carry the unmistakable imprint of the modern academy,
they seem to have little in common in terms of mode, contextual constraints and audience.
However, both academic blogs and 3MT talks propagate research and promote researchers to
wider audiences, requiring scholars to construct alternative ways of presenting themselves
and their work. More importantly, both involve generic repurposing, or interdiscursivity (Hu
& Liu, 2018; Author 1 & Author 2, 2019). They are both hybrid texts which draw on and
exploit features from both scholarly and more informal genres to suit new contexts and
audiences. Both, moreover, are members of an unfamiliar category: they are under-explored
by applied linguists.
In this paper, we examine how academics establish interpersonal rapport with non-specialist
audiences in these new academic genres. Using Author 2’s (2005) engagement model, we
compare key markers in 65 blog posts and 65 3MT presentations to address the following
questions:
(1) How do academic bloggers and 3MT presenters seek to engage their audiences?
(2) What similarities and differences are there in the use of these engagement features
in the two genres?
(3) How can we account for these variations?
We hope, in answering these questions, to not only shed light on how academics address their
audiences in taking their research beyond specialist insiders, but how engagement works in
very different academic contexts.
2. Academic blogs and 3MT presentations: Functions, motives and interdiscursivity
2.1 Academic blogs
The blog is now perhaps the most established means by which academics in both the physical
and social sciences are able to promote their research and their visibility beyond the narrow
confines of disciplinary specialists (e.g., Kurteeva, 2016). In fact, the academic blog is now a
key sector of the ‘blogsphere’ (Perry, 2015). The affordances of the web environment, such as
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hyperlinking to related work, filtering tools for searching and accessing material, and reader
participation below the post, make an attractive format for academics seeking to put their
work out into the wider world and get feedback on it (e.g., Herring et al. 2013).
Motivations for academic blogging are varied, but research shows they include promoting
one’s research to non-specialists, expressing a perspective on a current issue, and facilitating
idea-sharing (Gross & Buehl, 2015; Mahrt & Puschmann, 2014). The feedback channel
means that academic blogs offer increased possibilities for promoting dialogue around an
issue, giving experts and lay people alike the chance to respond. Writers can therefore
interact with other communities, present and discuss their work in progress, and receive
comments from their peers (Kuteeva, 2016). As such, they have been described as ‘virtual
water coolers’ (Kouper, 2010) and a type of ‘social software’ (Boyd, 2003), enabling
interactions between experts and interested lay people in co-constructing debates, so
facilitating a more egalitarian means of communicating research.
There are also institutional reasons for taking research outside the narrow interests of
specialised academics. Most research around the world is publicly funded and so supported
by tax-payers who are increasingly seen as having a right to know what’s going on in
laboratories, on field work and in researchers’ offices. Researchers and universities are
therefore increasingly requested to translate and proactively communicate their findings to
the public. While presentations and blogging are not yet a requirement of national research
evaluation frameworks such as the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), such external
measures are expected to become more highly weighted in future. On its website, ERA
claims to ‘identify and promote excellence across the full spectrum of research activity in
Australia’s higher education institutions’ and about a quarter of impact case studies submitted
to the UK’s REF in 2014 contained some reference to social media promotion (Jordan &
Carriganm 2018). This might be accelerated by the recent research which suggests that
engaging in public outreach activities is positively correlated to total citations (Kassab, 2019;
Pulido et al, 2018).
Another reason why academics are attracted to blogging is the potential they offer for self-
expression (Rainie & Wellman, 2012) and rapid publication to a potentially large audience.
Writers can offer an alternative version of themselves in blogs which can help increase their
visibility and strengthen their reputation (Gregg, 2006). This “academic entrepreneurialism”
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Deem (2001, p. 8), whereby researchers use social media to market themselves and their
research is especially valued by early career academics looking to accelerate their careers.
Blogging, however, is not all plain sailing. Relating academic research to a heterogeneous
audience means writers must create a more informal style which makes fewer demands on
readers’ subject knowledge. The opportunities the genre provides for response can also be
challenging for writers. Commenters have a reputation for casual rudeness and Luzón (2011)
found extremely adversarial challenges to academic blog posts with disagreement expressed
through sarcasm, condescension, challenging questions and insults.
While some academics may be deterred by the potential risk of vitriolic comments, academic
blogs remain a genre which appeals to many scholars seeking to widen their readership and
broaden their reputations. It has also attracted the attention of applied linguists attempting to
describe the place of the blog in the academic firmament. Blogs are interesting to English for
Academic Purposes (EAP) researchers as they exhibit interdiscursivity. They co-exist with
traditional scholarly genres and resemble popular science journalism while drawing on
features of research articles, conference talks and social media discourses (Grafton, 2009;
Kuteeva & Mauranen, 2018). This hybridity is a consequence of the particular functions it is
called on to perform in a new rhetorical context. As Todorov and Berrong (1976, p. 161)
point out:
‘a new genre is always the transformation of one or several old genres: by inversion,
by displacement, by combination.’
By breaking down boundaries between public and private discursive practices, blogs merge
and blend different interpersonal strategies which help construe immediacy, affectivity,
shared goals, and social support.
Applied linguists have therefore sought to describe the distinctive characteristics of academic
blogs, focusing on interactive patterns (Luzón, 2013, 2018), metadiscourse structuring
(Author 1 & Author 2, 2020), discourse pragmatics (Herring et al. 2013) and text
recontextualisation (Author 1 & Author 2, 2019). Luzón’s (2018) study, for instance, found
that the use of non-standard language enables research groups to more effectively share
information, while Bondi (2018) stresses the importance of intertextuality in conveying
information in economic blogs. These studies reveal some of the ways writing in a new
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context for a new audience have brought about in reshaping academic interactions for readers
outside their professional community.
2.2 3MT presentations
Like academic blog posts, three-minute thesis presentations seek to report research to new
audiences outside the speaker’s specialism. Originating at the university of Queensland in
2008, it is now held as an annual competition for PhD students in 86 countries and over 900
universities worldwide. As the name suggests, it challenges doctoral students to compress
their research into a 3-minute speech that can be understood by an intelligent audience with
no background in the research area and with only a single static slide for support.
The idea behind the genre is a desire to correct a perceived overemphasis on post-graduate
writing and to better prepare students for future academic or non-academic careers where
they will need to interact with non-experts (e.g., Feak, 2016). This, then, is an opportunity for
students to cultivate their academic presentation and research communication skills by
effectively showcasing their PhD and explaining it effectively to a live non-specialist
audience of judges, academics and fellow students. Speakers are advised to deliver their
speech with passion and enthusiasm in order to resonate with the diverse audience but
without trivialising the topic, reducing it to entertainment, or being condescending (Ferguson
& Davidson, 2014; Mewburn, 2012). The ‘Three Minute handbook’ of the University of
Edinburgh1
, for example, counsels students to observe four main judging criteria:
comprehension, content, engagement and communication. That is to say, speakers need to
present their research clearly and avoid jargon, to be appropriate to a non-specialist audience,
and to describe the impact and results clearly and in a logical sequence. The handbook also
makes the point that speakers must present their research engagingly with a confident stance,
to hook and maintain the audience’s attention.
This, then, is a real-world context with consequences for success, as not only are cash prizes
and prestige attached to winning, but videos of the performances are often uploaded to
university websites and shared by students. The audience itself, especially for finals, is
1
The University of Edinburgh Three Minute Thesis Handbook website address:
http://www.docs.hss.ed.ac.uk/iad/Postgraduate/PhD_researchers/3MT%20Handbook%20_V4.pdf
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usually substantial and often fills a hall. The pressures to perform well are considerable,
although the context is perhaps less fraught than for bloggers. The 3MT audience is relatively
more predictable, less diverse, and more supportive than those who read blogs. Instead of
potentially comprising interested lay people as well as a diverse array of scholars, it is made
up of an educated group of academics and fellow graduate students without specialist
knowledge of the topic. It also lacks the incipient hostility of the anonymous blog audience as
the genre lacks a feedback mechanism, with no opportunities for questions or comments after
the presentations. We also have to remember that the genre is situated in a formal competition
context with judges, announcements and the paraphernalia of institutional seriousness,
making this a novel rhetorical context (Hu & Liu, 2018) which encourages speakers to give
the best performance they can muster.
Like blog posts, however, 3MT presentations are hybrid texts which seem to embrace
features from other academic genres such as seminars, lectures, PhD defences and conference
presentations (e.g., Crawford Camiciottoli, 2004; Polo, 2018; Swales, 2004). Unlike
academic blogs, however, 3MT presentations have attracted little research attention and we
know of only Hu and Liu’s (2018) paper on the topic. This sets out the typical move structure
of the genre and suggests that the rhetorical patterns reflect the dominant knowledge-making
practices of different fields observed in written texts (e.g., Author 2, 2004). These
interdiscursive linkages, then, contribute to a genre which is both informational and
appealing, disciplinary and popular. For presenters, no less than for bloggers, individuals
must assess their audience, what they know, what they are likely to find interesting, and what
needs to be done to draw them along with the exposition. The fact that this is a different
mode, with different audience characteristics and a different context, means that speakers and
bloggers have to find different ways to interact and engage with their audiences.
3. Engaging audiences
Like all texts, academic discourses are structured to evoke affinity and engagement (Author
2, 2004; Swales, 2004). They are the ways writer/speakers’ seek to achieve particular
purposes, whether to persuade, inform or encourage action, and they can do this only with the
consent of their audiences. Text producers need to ensure that their reader/hearers can follow
their argument, comprehend the message, and be persuaded by its validity and this requires
the willing participation of an active addressee. Academics need to be aware of their
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audiences’ knowledge and expectations, acknowledge their interpersonal concerns and
recognise their possible doubts and processing difficulties. This involves, in part, adopting
interactional positions to bring them into the text and head off their possible objections. This
set of rhetorical strategies is collectively referred to as engagement (Author 2, 2005) and
concerns the ways writer/speakers construe and position their readers. It goes without saying
that engaging familiar audiences, from within one’s own research group or specialised field,
will be easier than addressing one composed outside these groups and becomes harder the
more uncertain or heterogeneous this audience becomes.
The online environment in which academic blogs operate allows this unknown audience of
experts and lay people to not only read but also respond to the text. Engagement is a crucial
feature of this uncertain, and potentially critical, environment as an ability to build a
relationship with readers is a key component of successfully managing readers and bringing
them to agreement. Some researchers have been drawn to the ways bloggers align with
readers in this way. Luzón (2011), for instance, found that both affect and conflict are
construed through discursive strategies such as affectivity, in-group cohesiveness, group
exclusion and confrontation. She also analysed the strategies used by bloggers to tailor
information to specific reader groups (Luzón, 2013). Author 1 & Author 2 (2020) suggest that
the ways writers engage their readers in blogs is influenced by disciplinary conventions.
Similarly, the engagement choices writers make when recontextualising the content of their
previously published research articles as blogs show considerable sensitivity to engaging
different types of readers (Author 1 & Author 2, 2019).
This interest in reader relationships, however, is mainly confined to the written mode and has
not yet extended to genres such as lectures, seminars or 3MT presentations. This is not to say
that research has completely overlooked how speakers deliver presentations to align with a
live audience in some monologic academic spoken discourses. Aguilar (2004), for example,
found that speakers in peer seminars use knowledge of their audience’s expertise in the topic
to moderate the degree of informality and how far they adopt a personal tone. Polo (2018)
examined conference presentations and found considerable use of the engagement feature you
compared with research articles. This feature helped speakers to engage hearers by portraying
them as equals capable of participating in the discussion. Liu et al (2017) found that
sentences with speaker self-mention and second person pronouns are most likely to generate
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audience applause in TED talks. To our knowledge, however, no research has focused on
engagement in 3MT presentations.
We address this oversight here. As we have noted, the fact that both academic blog posts and
3MT presentations, despite the different modes, genres and addressees involved, seek to take
research to a wider audience. This not only makes them challenging genres for writers and
speakers, but also interesting arenas for rhetorical research. A comparison of their
engagement patterns can shed light on interactive processes in academic communication and
illuminate something of the genres themselves.
In this paper, we follow Author 2 (2005) in understanding the term ‘engagement’ as the ways
“writers acknowledge and connect to others, recognising the presence of
their readers, pulling them along with their argument, focusing their
attention, acknowledging their uncertainties, including them as discourse
participants, and guiding them to their interpretations” (Author 2, 2005, p.
176).
Engagement, then, is about affiliation and involving readers in the text to both aid
comprehension and finesse persuasion. His taxonomy of the features commonly used to
achieve this (Author 2, 2005) has been widely used to analyse academic texts such as
research articles, student essays, PhD dissertations and academic blogs (e.g. Jiang & Ma,
2018; McGrath & Kuteeva, 2012; Author 1 & Author 2, 2020).
This dialogic awareness is most overtly indicated by explicit reference to readers; asking
them questions, making suggestions or addressing them directly (Author 2, 2001).
Specifically, the make these connections by the use of:
• Reader mention2
to bring readers into a discourse, normally through second person
pronouns such as you, your or inclusive we.
• Directives to instruct the reader, mainly expressed through imperatives such as let us,
note and obligation modals such as should, must.
• Questions to invite collusion by addressing the reader as having an interest in an issue
and a willingness to follow the writer’s response.
2
As we have said, engagement research has mainly focused on written texts, but we use the familiar term ‘reader
mention’ here to conveniently refer to all addressees.
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• Appeals to shared knowledge to request readers recognize something as familiar or
accepted such as obviously, of course.
• Personal asides to comment on what has been said, adding to the writer-reader
relationship (by the way…)
Together they reveal something of how writers directly address readers to develop their
arguments and build interpersonal solidarity. However, as we have noted, the model has
principally been applied to written discourse, and it is unclear whether speech employs the
same features. Comparing blogs with the 3MT genre, then, seeks to widen the model to
analyse spoken academic discourse and compare use between the two modes.
4. Methods and procedures
4.1 The corpora
To compare how bloggers and 3MT presenters align with their audiences we compiled two
corpora of 65 blog posts from the LSE Impact Blog website and 65 3MT presentations, both
from social sciences. To avoid the idiosyncrasies often associated with personal websites,
the posts were selected from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Impact Blog website3
. Launched in 2010, this was one of the earliest venues, and is now one
of the world’s most influential and prestigious academic blogging hubs. Today it is a major
forum for scholars seeking to maximise the impact of their research in subjects like policy,
society and education. Each post has a limit of 1000 words and submissions are reviewed by
the editors to ensure novelty, interest and readability and are generally published on the site
within 2 weeks after they revision. The audience, according to the website, is mainly
comprised of researchers, higher education professionals, policymakers, research funders,
students and the interested public, with more than 70,000 unique readers each week.
We had four criteria for selecting the posts. They:
1) were published between 2013 and 2020 to ensure currency
2) were written in English
3) were written by different authors
4) discussed or reported research rather than addressed social or political issues.
Finally, we reviewed the blog posts chronologically, extracting every nth blog in texts per
year in each discipline between 2013 and 2020.
3
LSE Impact Blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
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The 3MT corpus was transcribed from videos posted on public domain sites such as
YouTube, threeminutethesis.org and university websites. We ensured that the selected
presentations exemplified the key features of the genre such as the time limit, live audience
and the use of only one static slide. Our criteria were that the 3MT presentations
1) were presented between 2012 and 2020 to ensure currency
2) were presented in English
3) were presented by PhD students
4) were the top three finishers of university sponsored competitions to ensure
consistency of quality
5) belonged to social sciences fields to ensure consistency with the blogs
The stratified random sampling was used to reduce this to 65 which were then transcribed by
the first author.
Overall, 65 blog texts of 69,256 words and 65 3MT presentations of 28,059 words were
collected (see Table 1). We believe this difference in the word counts had little influence on
our results as the number of texts in each corpus was the same and we standardised the
feature counts to 1,000 words.
Table 1. Corpus size and composition
Number of texts Total number of words
Academic blog posts 65 69,256
3MT presentations 65 28,059
Total 130 97,315
4.2 Coding and analysis
The two corpora were searched for Author 2’s (2005) list of some 320 common engagement
features with the aid of AntConc (Anthony, 2018) and additional items were added after a
thorough reading of the data. Next, all retrieved items were concordance and manually
checked to ensure that each performed the engagement function it was assigned. Agreement
was reached by each author independently coding a 30% sample of each corpus. An inter-
rater agreement of 96% was achieved through discussion. Intra-reliability tests were also
conducted by the first author re-categorising 20% of the cases two weeks after the initial
coding with full agreement between the two. Finally, the frequencies of each engagement
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feature were calculated after normalising the results to 1,000 words to allow for cross-corpora
comparison. The SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) (version: IBM SPSS
Statistics 24) was used to determine the statistical significances of results using a Student’s t-
test. The results are discussed in the following sections.
5. Engagement: overall results
Overall, we found 793 features in the blog posts and 954 in the - much shorter - 3MT
presentations. This amounted to 11.44 engagement items per 1,000 words in the blogs
compared with 34 in the 3MT presentations. The details are presented in Table 2. Researchers
are clearly conscious of the need to engage with audiences in both genres. It is not surprising
to find there are significantly more engagement features in the 3MT presentations than in the
blog posts (log Likelihood = 52.98, p < 0.0001), with reader mention being particularly
favoured with nearly 5 times as many as in the blog posts.
Table 2. Engagement features in the two genres (per 1,000 words and %)
Academic blog posts 3MT presentations
1,000 words % 1,000 words %
Reader mention 5.34 46.66 24.02 70.65
Directives 1.80 15.76 2.96 8.70
Questions 2.24 19.55 5.70 16.77
Shared knowledge 1.89 16.52 1.18 3.46
Personal asides 0.17 1.51 0.14 0.42
Total 11.44 100.00 34.00 100.00
Table 2 shows that we find more reader mentions, directives and questions in 3MT
presentations, although the difference for directives is not significant (log Likelihood = 60.37,
p<0.0001 for reader mention, log Likelihood = 21.16, p<0.0001 for questions and log
Likelihood = 2.18, p< 0.25 for directives). In contrast, appeals to shared knowledge and
personal asides are significantly more frequent in the blog posts (log Likelihood = 22.28,
p<0.0001 for shared knowledge and log Likelihood = 8.21, p< 0.02 for personal asides).
These variations can be ascribed to the greater immediacy of the spoken genre and the need
to create an urgent sense of affinity and interest in a very short time span. This time
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constraint, and the fact academics are trying to attract and connect with a widely disparate
audience forces them to employ more interactive language resources, both to highlight the
novelty and interest of their research and make it clear to judges. In the following sub-
sections, results specific to each engagement feature will be discussed.
6. Reader mention: constructing solidarity
Reader mentions are the most explicit ways of bringing readers into a discourse as they refer
directly to them (Author 2, 2005, 2008). They also account for the largest proportion of
engagement markers in each corpus. Reference to the reader helps create the proximity of a
real and pressing issue and promises to involve the audience in its exploration. In research
articles the use of you or inclusive we is a marked choice and a strong signal of stepping
outside the usual boundaries of appropriately formal engagement to make a point (Author 2,
2008). You, however, fits more naturally in the faux personal contexts of blogs and 3MT talks
where a greater sense of conversational intimacy and solidarity is being sought:
(1) Should we be surprised, or concerned? You might argue that these
situations are what journal editors are for … (BP 40) 4
(2) How many times have you brought groceries home and ended up
throwing them out before you even have a chance to eat them? (3MT 2)
Table 2 shows that reader mention was far more frequent in 3MT presentations than in blog
posts, indicating the higher level of interactivity of the genre, a characteristic consistent with
other academic spoken genres such as lectures and conference presentations (Cheng, 2012;
Polo, 2018). The real-time, live presentations mean that reader mention plays a more
prominent role, creating a sense of shared experience or directing attention to a salient point.
There are also differences between the two corpora in the types of reader pronouns used.
Table 3 shows that both inclusive first and second person pronouns are significantly more
frequent in 3MT presentations (log Likelihood = 35.97, p<0.0001 for we/our/us and log
Likelihood= 49.69, p<0.0001 for you/your). Indefinite pronouns are far less common but are
more frequent in blog posts (log Likelihood = 5.62, p<0.06).
4
BP refers to the blog post corpus and 3MT to the 3MT presentations. The number identifies the text.
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Table 3. Types of reader pronouns across genres (per 1,000 words and %)
Academic blog posts 3MT presentations
per 1,000 words % per 1,000 words %
we/our/us 3.03 56.76 11.01 45.85
you/your 1.78 33.24 12.58 52.37
one/reader 0.53 10.00 0.43 1.78
Total 5.34 100.0 24.02 100.00
The greater use of indefinite pronouns in blog posts indicates that some writers prefer a less
explicitly direct and personal way of engaging audiences. This sets a more formal and
objective tone, perhaps reflecting the fact that academic blogs are heavily influenced by
written academic genres (Author 1 & Author 2, 2019, 2020):
(3) One can re-analyse existing datasets, one can collect new data with the
same study protocol (a direct replication), or one can collect new data with
a modified study protocol... (BP 30)
As we have said, the preference for both inclusive and second person pronouns in the 3MT
genre shows the influence of conversational intimacy, and this is particularly clear in the
prominence of second person, with nearly 12 times more cases. Strategic you-mentions are
more frequent in informal registers (e.g., Biber et al, 1999) and can enhance persuasiveness
and strengthen interpersonal bonds by expressing concern with the audience’s assumed needs
and expectations (Polo, 2018). In blog posts, writers prefer inclusive we to you/your (see
Table 3) as they attempt to involve readers through sharedness to head-off divergent views.
Working outside a disciplinary framework and seeking to convince an anonymous and
potentially hostile readership, finessing a united approach to matters can be an effective
strategy:
(4) By thinking outside the box, we can gain important insights into
understanding the complexity of policymaking, … (BP 2)
Examining the uses of you shows further differences between the two genres. Various
functions have been proposed for second person pronouns by those studying conference
presentations (Rowley-Jolivet & Carter-Thomas, 2005; Polo, 2018), but we identified 4 main
categories in our two corpora. In addition to thanking the audience for attending to their talk,
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speakers employed you to guide their understanding of ideas and connections in the text,
invite the audience to share an interpretation, and to refer to common experiences. Table 4
shows that the uses of you to thank audiences, guide understanding, invite a shared
interpretation and refer to shared experiences were all significantly more frequent in 3MT
presentations.
Table 4. Functions of you across genres (per 1,000 words and %)
Functions of you Blog posts 3MT presentations
per 1,000 words % per 1,000 words %
Thanking audiences 0.00 0.00 2.10 16.80
Guiding understandings 0.25 13.8 3.64 29.00
Inviting shared interpretations 1.10 61.8 2.17 17.30
Referring to shared experiences 0.43 24.4 4.63 36.90
Total 1.78 100.00 12.54 100.00
The formulaic acknowledgement of the audience and judging panel is obviously restricted to
the face-to-face genre and occurred in every text. You-mention as a way to guide the
audience’s understanding, however, was over twice as frequent per 1000 words in the 3MT
talks. The face-to-face setting allows for far more explicit forms of audience monitoring than
in writing (e.g., Polo, 2018) so we find them used more in the presentations. The speakers in
our corpus seemed to do this in three main ways, by spelling out what they are doing (5), by
directing and guiding the audience’s understanding (6) and by inviting them to join a virtual
dialogue (7):
(5) Let me tell you a short story. (3MT 19)
(6) So, you can kind of think of DNA like a garden hose wrapped around a
wheel. (3MT 4)
(7) So, which would you choose? (3MT 26)
Together they make the presentation more convincing and engaging, helping the audience see
what is salient and bring them to the preferred conclusions.
The third function of reader mention, to invite the audience to share the writer/speaker’s
interpretation of material is found more frequently in the 3MT presentations, while this
function accounts for the largest proposition (54.2%) of uses in blog posts. Here you-mention
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helps craft agreement and convince the audience of the argument’s validity. The underlying
message is that the data indisputably support the writer or speaker’s views and this should be
clear to the audience:
(8) As you can you see, there are both structural and cultural factors which
contribute to the gendered outcomes of advancement processes. (BP 7)
(9) You can also use stakeholder analysis methods to identify relevant policy
actors, or more simply by asking yourself: … (BP 5)
Readers here are brought to agreement with the writer by the assumption that there is
only one possible interpretation that makes sense, building solidarity with them as
intelligent co-constructors of the argument.
The presenters overwhelmingly preferred to engage readers with you-mention to claim
experiences as familiar to both speaker and hearers. Again, this strategy exploits the spoken
mode to insinuate information and ideas are shared through everyday experience. There is,
then, an assumption that audiences will bring relevant prior knowledge to the event and this
can be used to finesse acceptance of the argument.
(10) For example, you may have heard recently about Taylor Swift’s outrage
when the back catalogue of her albums was sold to another label. (3MT 18)
(11) Each one of you has an identity form throughout the course of your life
based on what you have experienced, … (3MT 46)
This, then, is a strategy which can arouse the audience’s interest as it draws more on general
knowledge
7. Directives: instructing readers
The second engagement feature we studied were directives. These instruct the reader to
perform an action or to see things in a way determined by the writer: they therefore help
manage the readers' understanding and processing of a text (Author 2, 2002a). They are
generally expressed through obligation modals (must, should have to), imperatives (note,
consider, imagine), and predicative adjectives expressing the writer's judgements of
necessity/importance. Table 2 shows that these were slightly more frequent in the blog posts,
but with an insignificant statistical difference (log Likelihood = 2.18, p< 0.25).
The relatively low frequencies for directives results from the fact that they are a potentially
risky strategy. While they can closely engage the reader and suggest closeness and the kind
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of connection that allows one person to advise another, they can come close to violating the
conventional fiction of democratic peer relations in academic discourse. This is particularly
true in the competition context, where presenters are aware of violating the positive face of a
live audience. Directives which instruct the audience to see things in a certain way may be
regarded as too bald-on-record to be a useful engagement strategy. It implies an unequal
power relation where the speaker claims the right to instruct hearers to do or see things the
speaker’s way and, with a panel of judges among the audience, they tend to avoid this. For
bloggers, however, directives can be a key element of speaking directly with readers to
emphasise points and bring readers closer to agreement (Author 1 & Author 2, 2020):
(12) First, think about your immediate network: colleagues, collaborators,
supervisors, even friends and family. (BP 5)
(13) That we should also carry out replication studies in the humanities
follows from the conjunction of two relatively simple facts. (BP 30)
Author 2 (2002a) argues that directive instruct readers to carry out one of three possible
actions. They guide readers to another part of the text or to another text using textual acts
(e.g., see Smith 1999, refer to table 2); instruct them how to carry out some action in the real
world through physical acts (e.g., open the valve, heat the mixture); or lead them through a
line of reasoning to certain conclusions using cognitive acts (e.g., note, concede or consider
some argument). Table 5 shows that physical and cognitive acts were more frequent in the
3MT genre, even though the difference in cognitive acts was not significant (log Likelihood =
12.48, p < 0.002 for physical acts and log Likelihood = 0.94, p < 0.38 for cognitive acts). The
spoken mode, the limitation to one static slide, and the absence of any tables, figures, or
citations, mean that 3MT speakers had little need for textual acts. These were, however,
relatively common in the blog posts (log Likelihood = 20.97, p < 0.0001), as here:
(14) This, in turn, will increase your chances in grant procedures and foster
your career potential (the credibility cycle, see figure below). (BP 20)
(15) The resulting hIa-based ranking of academics in Economics & Business
in the Netherlands (see Harzing & Mijnhardt, in press for details) is
substantially different from the original ranking … (BP 27)
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Table 5. Functions of directives across genres (per 1,000 words and %)
Functions Academic blog posts 3MT presentations
per 1,000 words % per 1,000 words %
Textual act 0.36 20.00 0.00 0.00
Physical act 0.78 43.20 2.25 75.90
Cognitive act 0.66 36.80 0.71 24.10
Total 1.80 100.00 2.96 100.00
Physical attempt to stimulate some action by the audience, and in the 3MT presentations they
seem an effective way for speakers to create immediacy and proximity. The use of more
physical directives in this genre is a result of speakers trying to give hearers a clearer sense of
how research is conducted and offer more personal accounts of research activities. They are a
way of encouraging active involvement with the argument rather than performing an action
outside the text:
(16) you have to read the quoting context straight after he tells David this
advice, … (3MT 43)
(17) Let’s first talk about how we speak. (3MT 55)
Finally, cognitive directives require audiences to reflect on, recognise or concede some
aspect of an argument (Author 2, 2002). They encourage engagement with the
writer/speaker’s argument to ensure the viewpoint is understood and, hopefully, accepted.
Cognitive directives carry the strongest sense of conviction and the greatest degree of
imposition on others and the fact they are slightly more frequent in the 3MT talks is probably
related to the greater directness of the spoken mode:
(18) Imagine that you are sending your transcripts to universities, employers,
and scholarship committees, … (3MT 8)
(19) Now, think back to earlier when you were queuing at the boarding gate.
(3MT 36)
As we can see, cognitive directive promotes the audience’s reflection on their daily lives or
experiences as a means of pulling them along with the argument.
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8. Questions: creating involvement
Questions, according to Author 2 (2002b) are the main strategy of dialogic engagement,
inviting readers into the discourse as participants and leading them to agreement. Questions
allow researchers to move away from a monologue and turn a one-sided exposition into a
dialogue, so that questions were significantly more frequent in the 3MT talks than in the blog
posts (log Likelihood = 21.16, p<0.0001). It is, then, a perfect rhetorical strategy for speakers
in the 3MT competition who must hook the audience within the first 20 seconds and then
slowly reel them in within 3 minutes. Questions, then, as in conversation, help manufacture
immediacy, intimacy and informality, and here this makes the specialised knowledge more
interesting, available and easier to digest:
(20) Guess what? (3MT 5)
(21) Does gender matter? (3MT 33)
Questions in academic blog posts, on the other hand, were largely used to express the writer’s
confidence in shared interests and to foreground assumptions about the audience’s likely
understandings:
(22) What are the outcomes of this process? (BP 26)
(23) Has this interest produced any consensus on how to ensure policy is
backed by evidence? (BP 1)
We also identified genre variations in terms of the functions the questions served. Here we
followed Thompson (1998) in identifying three sub-categories, those used to
• Check comprehension – tags to ensure the audience's understanding of the message,
e.g. OK? Right? Get it?
• Evoke audience response – engage by changing a monologue to a dialogue e.g. what
would you do?
• Seek audience agreement – polar interrogative tags (e.g. isn’t it? Wouldn’t you?).
Table 6 shows that the seek agreement type was only used in blog posts (log Likelihood =
4.57, p < 0.09) and that the check questions predominate in the 3MT talks (log Likelihood =
4.53, p < 0.09). Bloggers, on the other hand, preferred questions which evoked a response
(log Likelihood = 21.07, p <0.0001).
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Table 6. Functions of audience-oriented questions across genres (per 1,000 words and %)
Academic blog posts 3MT presentations
per 1,000 words % per 1,000 words %
Check 0.12 5.16 0.25 4.38
Evoke response 2.05 91.61 5.45 95.62
Seek agreement 0.07 3.23 0.00 0.00
Total 2.24 100.00 5.70 100.00
The significantly greater use of check questions in the 3MT talks indicates speakers’
sensitivity to the potential knowledge gap with the audience and the need to ensure they are
following along. It is also a strategy common in more casual spoken encounters and so adds a
degree of informality and closeness to the event. Facing an audience with an uncertain
knowledge of the topic, speakers continually checked comprehension, or at least affected to,
in order to win support an approval. The opportunity to throw in comprehension checks not
only offered speakers access to a feedback loop but also a way to intimate a dialogue:
(24) It could happen after any type of stimulating course, right? (3MT 13)
(25) So, you see predictive mapping is cool, right? (3MT 52)
The less use of check questions in the blog posts is largely due to the delayed response time
of the medium, but they still occurred as writers seek to acknowledge readers’ potential lack
of familiarity with topic, but also to create a certain informality in the discussion:
(26) How has this come about? Get it? (BP 25)
Questions which attempt to evoke a response also fit more naturally into spoken discourse.
As Bondi (2018, p.4) observes, by explicitly eliciting responses via questions, writers can
promote ‘not just polylogues or multi-party conversations, but interwoven polylogues’. We
also find that questions which seek to arouse a response in the 3MT presentations are often
combined with direct reader mention to help construct a more interactive discourse:
(27) How do we face climate change? (3MT 50)
(28) So, what do you do? My dissertation explores this problem by
examining… (3MT 28)
These examples illustrate how questions can engage the audience and make them feel that
their personal experience or views count. This also seems to attract some bloggers, although
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this less directly interactive environment means they are far fewer and are more often used to
guide readers through the argument, sometimes, as in (30), as sub-heads:
(29) And how are these outcomes achieved? (BP 26)
(30) How to develop a conceptual foundation? (BP 4)
Finally, questions which engage the audience by requesting their agreement with a statement
are rare in our corpora and do not occur in the 3MT presentations at all. Essentially, these
questions function to pull an audience into the discourse by ostensibly displaying an interest
in its position on a topic. However, seeking agreement by following a statement with a tag
question is a particularly pushy form of engagement as it represents a direct attempt to
influence the reader’s thinking. Thompson (1998) points out this type of question applies
pressure on the audience to agree with the speaker and so carries a considerable face threat,
especially when used to seek agreement for a controversial point. Author 2 (2002b) similarly
observes that seeking agreement tags almost never occur in research texts as they can be seen
as an overt display of authority. In a face-to-face situation it is particularly invasive and so
speakers seem to steer clear of using it. Some bloggers, however, are prepared to take the risk
of alienating their audience by gambling on the faux proximity these questions create:
(31) Policymaking is a complex process, isn’t it? (BP 2)
Here we see writers using questions to bring readers onside by asking them to agree with a
statement. The risk of, course, is that the audience will resent the claim for greater authority
this move makes and chose to challenge it.
9. Remaining engagement features
The remaining two features have relatively low frequencies in the 3MT corpus and only
appeals to shared knowledge make a significant contribution to engagement in the blog posts.
The rationale for this strategy is the idea that readers can only be brought to agreement with
the writer by building on what is already implicitly agreed, and that by explicitly referring to
this agreement writers progress their case. In research articles writers can draw on shared
knowledge to construct themselves and their reader as members of the same discipline
Author 2, 2001), but in blogs writers are not usually addressing a homogeneous community
but intimating sharedness to bring readers on board, flattering their knowledge of the topic,
and moving them towards agreement. For many bloggers appealing to the readers assumed
familiarity with the background of a topic and wider everyday understandings, helps to
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recruit them as cooperative participants:
(32) That obviously means we can identify stakeholders who are affected by
such topics. (BP 4)
(33) The reason, of course, is that these comments are free of the constraints
and specificities of a closed question. (BP 45)
The strategy thus moves the focus of the discourse away from the writer to shape the
understandings of the reader.
This explicit manoeuvring of the reader into acceptance of the claim is perhaps too
transparent a strategy in the 3MT competition as it assumes that the audience already knows,
or more often, can be led into accepting, something as shared with the speaker. For novice
academics this foregrounding of a common frame for seeing the world may be a difficult ploy
to pull off. Not only may they misjudge the audiences’ ability to recover shared
understandings, but a misstep may mean that hearers will refuse to go along with the strategy
and see it as a cheap rhetorical ploy. It is also a strategy which takes precious time from the
forward momentum of the argument as hearers pause to consider the extent to which they are
prepare to accept the assumption as an inescapable fact, and this is time that there is precious
little of to spare. So when shared knowledge is appealed to, speakers are less likely to rely on
logical reasoning and more likely to refer to the routine conditions under which statements
are accepted as valid. Example such as these are more common:
(34) I find that this effect is driven by a common perception of how easy it
is to move with their device. (3MT 34)
(35) But if you are like me and you spend a lot of time with these around
worms, you will find this is not normally thought to be possible. (3MT 56)
The final engagement feature, personal asides, are interruptions to the argument which allow
writers to address the audience directly by offering a comment on what has been said (Author
2, 2005). The inserted comments in parentheses in this example, for instance, are not directly
related to developing the ongoing text, but an attempt to pause the discussion and focus on
the writer-reader relationship:
(36) Even if the latter is true (there are worries here though: why would
multiple valid answers not count as multiple truths?), that doesn’t
disqualify the first point: … (BP 30)
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Such asides take a certain amount of panache and confidence to pull off and this may explain
why the graduate 3MT presenters were reluctant to use them. When asides did occur, they did
not impose on the reader with a witticism or confident commentary, but were succinct and
stuck closely to the script:
(37) By the way, I believe my work is important because it directly addresses
questions about global food security. (3MT 3)
Asides, however, are more common in blog posts, although the numbers are still small. Here
they borrow from research articles and conference papers, presenting information about the
self-confidence of the author as much as evoking a shared frame for understanding, as here:
(38) Policymaking has, on many occasions, been likened to making sausage
(you’ll like it better if you don’t watch how it’s made too closely). (BP 5)
Academic blogs provide writers with more space for the authors personal views, although the
main aim is to create a common bond with the reader.
10. Conclusions
We have explored how academics engage their audiences in two new, but rapidly growing
genres which seek to take research to audiences beyond the narrow confines of specialists.
To do this, both 3MT presenters and bloggers have to find new ways of informing and
persuading a more diverse audience of their research. An important aspect of this
recontextualisation process involves making language choices which are both more
egalitarian than in conventional academic genres and which exhibit greater sensitivity to the
diverse views and background knowledge of their audiences. The engagement devices we
have discussed in this paper therefore show how academics’ rhetorical choices help create a
favourable environment for this, moving away from choices they are familiar with in research
articles, conference papers and theses to index very different rhetorical contexts.
The results indicate that 3MT presenters used more engagement resources overall and
especially those features which sought to bring audiences into the discussion by mentioning
them explicitly, which directed them to think in certain ways, and which addressed them with
questions. Academic bloggers, on the other hand, emphasised shared knowledge more
frequently and offered more parenthetical commentary. Mode and context help account for
these differences. As a spoken genre delivered in a time-constrained, face-to-face competitive
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context, 3MT talks encourage a more urgently persuasive and intimate style of argument,
drawing on conversational as well as academic registers. Speakers must quickly hook their
hearers and then keep them involved throughout. Bloggers are similarly trying to promote
shared interpretations and persuade readers that their interpretations are valid, but they are
able to take their time to spell out their arguments. They are, moreover, conscious that they
are working in a potentially hostile medium where a false step can have serious face-
threatening consequences.
Our study is not without limitations, of course. It focuses only on texts from the social
sciences and more research can be done by exploring engagement patterns in other
disciplines. The fact that bloggers and presenters are members of particular academic
communities and are offering their research from those backgrounds would strongly suggest
that these genres are likely to reflect disciplinary conventions. An examination of the
disciplinary differences has the potential to develop a more comprehensive and nuanced
picture of these new academic genres. We are also aware that engagement might be promoted
through tone, facial expression, posture and gesture which are not available to us in this
paper. There is, however, uncertainty about the extent of this and some research suggests that
non-verbal features only temper an audience response rather than sway it (Nagel et al. 2012;
Jackob et al. 2016). Future work might extend the engagement framework to incorporate
these multimodal elements of spoken genres to provide a fuller picture.
We hope, however, that our work has shed some light on the engagement patterns used in
these genres and how interpersonal resources are differently employed to meet different
exigencies. We also believe that our description of these resources have implications for
graduate students and other scholars who are seeking to take their work to audiences beyond
those of research articles and conference papers. As a result, we believe our findings may be
of interest to academics wishing to make the transition to public engagement activities such
as those working in Professional Services within Higher Education like Researcher
Developer Managers and Librarians. We also see benefits for teachers of academic writing
and speaking in helping to raise students’ genre awareness and providing them with effective
strategies to participate in these genres. The results, then, might help teachers scaffold
students’ analysis of genre exemplars to develop a stronger rhetorical awareness of both blog
posts and 3MT talks. By using examples of these texts learners can be guided to focus on
salient features and their potential impact of audiences and better understand how it is
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possible to create, rather than simply respond to, contexts through language.
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