ESE:O Presentation at Witt. South Africa, Dec 2011.

2. WRITING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
• ese:o is a NGO that works on • “Essay” in Esperanto
capacity enhancement and
development for research through • Sustainable research-action
critical thinking, collaborative writing
and cooperantion.
• Simple new technologies allow for
systematic action and local
• Role of Humanities in challenging empowerment
the “global gap” in knowledge
production and dissemination
• Written communication favors critical
thought and impact evaluation
• ese:o accumulates over 10 years of
research .and receives support from
• Contribution to Human Rights and
the Ford Foundation to systematize
social change from the Humanities
and package its methodology.

3. DISTINCT ACADEMIC PUBLISHINC GEOGRAPHIES
• This graphic
visualizes the
locations of
academic journals
listed in
Thompson
Reuters’ Web of
Knowledge.
Source: The Oxford
Internet Institute
(OII), 2011.

4. LANGUAGE, GEOGRAPHY AND POWER
This visualisation
segments academic
journals by language
and country and
shades each country
by the average
impact factor of the
journals published
within it.
Source: OII, 2011.
Source: The Oxford
Internet Institute (OII),
2011.

6. First barrier: the preeminence of English

7. Second barrier: lack of locally-produced knowledge

8. Third Barrier: Isolation
• Isolation as a silent barrier
• Individuals must participate as writers
and readers
• Collaborative writing and use of
technology to address multiple forms
of isolation

9. Fourth Barrier: Stigma
• Lack of experience with difference
• Extra linguistic and cognitive effort required to read a
paper submitted
• Different code, different style, different references
• Discrimination against other forms of argumentative
style
• Other criteria for truth
• an unconscious prejudice
• Confuses a shortage of resources and infrastructure
with a lack of the requisite skills and quality

10. Research shows that …
• Learning academic writing requires time, effort, self-regulation
and discipline. It takes 10 years to become an expert on anything.
The passage from the stages of novice to competent to expert
requires making progress in several areas:
Strategy: planning, emulating models, speaking to an
international audience, targeting journals, etc.
Knowledge: of field and discourse (elements of persuasion).
Skills: intellectual and social.
Motivation: confidence, efficacy.

11. OUR METHODOLOGY • Language as medium, place and
• is conducted online materiality
• using peer editing as a tool
• Body as a social and political effect of
• allows for personal pacing while working language
in a group of colleagues
• aimed at all kinds of researcher • Language and desire: finding your own
researchers voice
• includes organization, argumentation,
referencing and placing/ preparation for • Writing as a political tool
publication
• process of writing and publishing takes • Critique of academic labor structure
from six to nine months within post-colonial, capitalist and neo-
liberal logic of academica in the global
• We work on competences from a political south.
point of view

12. THE BASIC STEPS

13. Roles in methodology Global vision: design of research strategies
and learning activities to maximize inclusion of
voices from the South and articulation with
global conversations
Coordination – Integration Epistemological strategy
an integrating voice that centered on argumentation
lends coherence to the and disciplinary-specific
whole process, coordinating strategies
roles of tutors and providing
global perspective
Communication
Language political and communicative
oversees writing and style, approach focused on
detailed editing focused on effectiveness and visibility
clarity and fluidity beyound the course
environment, vis-a-vis
international journals

17. • Online and face to face writing workshops
for academic and publishing
• Thesis and dissertation writing coaching
• Collaborative books
• Teaching of strategic reading skills in
English and Spanish
• Report writing
• Coordination of capacity-building projects

18. www.eseo.cl