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Academic Writing Month (also known as "AcWriMo") is an annual Web-based writing event challenging participants to meet a self-set writing goal during the month of November. It is based on National Novel Writing Month ("NaNoWriMo") and other variations of this model including National Blog Posting Month ("NaBloPoMo") and National Poetry Writing Month ("NaPoWriMo"). It was established by Charlotte Frost and the academic resource (PhD2Published ), a blog geared towards helping early-career academics learn how to get published. Sites such as Chronicle of Higher Education, The Teaching Tomtom,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://theteachingtomtom.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/a-writing-challenge-–-the-first-acbowrimo-has-been-announced/ )〕 and Get a Life, PhD, have featured the project. Participants register for AcWriMo by signing up on the Accountability Spreadsheet, and by posting an initial declaration of intention on the PhD2Published blog post announcing the start of the project, on the site's Facebook page, or by using the Twitter hashtag "#AcWriMo." == History == The project was originally called Academic Book Writing Month (or AcBoWriMo) and was created by Dr. Charlotte Frost when she was a Provost International Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM). Frost aimed to develop an event that would push her and her colleagues to work on their respective academic writing projects and create a writing “team” among them and the wider global academic community. The inaugural event took place November 2011 with over one hundred participants sharing their progress on their blogs and social media accounts; such blogs include (Goanatree ), (Sound & Fury ), (Finds and Features ), (The Ambulant Scholar ), (Emily and the Lime ), (Read React Review ), (Glorious Generalist ), (Standardized Teacher ), (A Dozen Pickled Limes ), (Dacia Takes Note ), and (Constance Kassor ). Frost also discussed the start of AcBoWriMo on her own (blog ). The vast majority of participants claimed to have enjoyed the month-long writing support group (who communicated primarily on Twitter. A few dissonant voices argued that writing quality might be compromised by working intensively or that the project could give the impression that academic writing can and should be a fast process.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Martin )〕 As noted on UWM's website:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/news/acbowrimo.cfm )〕 "Criticism has come mainly related to the name. 'A couple of people took it a little too literally and thought I was suggesting you could write an entire, quality academic book in one month, which of course I’m not,' notes Charlotte. Such criticism has been constructive, though, as Charlotte considers ways to improve next year’s event and continue the movement. One possibility is the inclusion of a broader discussion on the nature of academic work. Different subject areas have different demands, and some tasks can be completed quickly while others require a slower and more considered process. While Charlotte has been quick to embrace social media as a communication and team-building tool for the challenge, she also acknowledges that the juxtaposition of instant communication with a discipline that may not move at that speed is a challenge and worthy of a dialogue." Frost responded to critics while the project spoke for itself: many participants continued with the project through December 2011 and adapted a new Twitter hashtag (#AcWri) to refer to the project's more general focus on academic writing. Additionally, other participants (defended ) Frost and the project. In 2012 Frost decided to widen the remit and removed the ‘bo’ (referring to book) dedicating the event to all forms of academic writing 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Academic Writing Month」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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