This book review provides an overview of What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice by Julia Molinari (2022). Molinari’s purpose for writing the book, as she says herself, was: (1) to provide students, teachers and supervisors with reasons (and a license) to re-imagine academic texts; (2) to extend established academic writing scholarship by introducing critical realism as a conceptual framework for justifying plural, democratized, multimodal, diverse and inclusive forms of academic writing; and (3) to develop a philosophy of change that lays a foundation for diversifying writing pedagogies.
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