Blog Prompt: Does "voice" that resonates compete with or enhance "academic voice"? How can we write successfully as "academics" and still have voice? Or, you can talk about how important you think voice is in teaching/grading: how do you teach "voice"? How do you assess it?
I think resonating voice can compete or enhance "academic voice." I believe the essential thing to have is control over your voice. When you are writing a story for yourself you can let your voice take over, lead you to new ideas, speak for you entirely. However, when you have a larger audience to consider, maybe an audience dictated by the type of writing you are working on, you must regulate or control your voice. You should not squelch your voice, simply control when and in what manner it appears on your writing and to what degree.
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James,
I agree with you. Ignoring your own voice completely or allowing too much of it to enter into academic writing are not good things to do. That is why I think the different stages of paper drafts are so important; one has a chance to play with the amount of voice one wants to include in the final draft. We often start out with notes only, which are pretty much all our voice. Then in the subsequent drafts, our voice changes by adapting more and more to the academic requirements of the kind of writing we do.
I think your enthusiasm for your subject can enter academic papers. I can always tell from my writing if I am invested in it or not, even though almost all of it is academic in nature.
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