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writing seminar, task for session #13: writing and revising for broader impact

Find an example of an academic article or other scholarly work that also engages broader audiences through supplementary writings, translations, presentations, etc. Come prepared to discuss how it extends the research impact. Look at your own paper topic and think of 2–3 ways the core findings or ideas could be reframed and translated for non-academic audiences.

All by Thursday 18.1.2024 6 PM.


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Victoria Mummelthei (15. Januar 2024). writing seminar, task for session #13: writing and revising for broader impact. Keine Disziplin – No Discipline. Abgerufen am 9. März 2026 von https://doi.org/10.58079/13jpj


2 Antworten auf „writing seminar, task for session #13: writing and revising for broader impact“

  1. I think one of the factors to consider when expanding the focus in terms of maximizing readership would be the interdisciplinary one. Once you try to deal with a topic on which new approaches and new perspectives can emerge, this factor helps people who understand those disciplines that give new approaches to the topic in question (even if they are not from the same academic domain) to be interested in it. In this way, a wider public and other academic fields can be reached. Another aspect that I consider important is to have or at least try to incorporate real stories, first-person testimonies, personal stories that attract the reader and thus intrigue them to read. Despite not being directly attracted to the main topic, this strategy aims to introduce an unfamiliar topic through a real narrative escapade that at first glance catches the reader’s attention. That is why my example of an academic article is as follows:

    Aghacy, S. (2015). Traffic between the Factual and the Imagined: Beirut Deferred. In Writing Beirut: Mappings of the City in the Modern Arabic Novel (pp. 126–160). Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt14brxj3.10

    On the other hand, visual support is often a great help both for the understanding of the subject and to attract the reader. The aim of this is that the input of visual information reaches the reader more easily and captures the attention and interest more quickly.

  2. One way to broaden the spectrum of the potential readers and get grasp of bigger audience from my personal experience would be imagery such as graphs and data sheets. Since I have been actively looking for different sources and academic work for the university studies, I came across many different slides of data which ultimately referred to an academic work, which I would never see otherwise. Although I haven’t chosen any specific academic work for this task, I wanted to share what I believe could be used to reach more non-academic readers.

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