PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARLY WRITING IN A GLOBAL CONTEXTSeminar for Project FREE-Paglaum Educational Research classesDec. 20, 2014MM Auditorium A, University of St. La Salle , Bacolod City, Philippines

Why a re we in a c a d e 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

Scho la rly 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

“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

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 work of 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 or administrative forms (briefs, proofreading, editing, peer review, proposals, white papers)

Personal forms (autobiographies, weblogs, memoirs) Newer forms (collaborative writing, hypertext, performative

writing/belles-lettres)

The g lo ba l c o nte x t

21st century challenges and Information Age demands: ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION and RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL 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

Aca d e m ic Ra nking o f Wo rld Unive rs itie 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

Whe re a re y o u in the g lo ba l m a rke tp la c e o f id e a s ? 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”)

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

- Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

- Albert Einstein