In this feature essay, Katie Collins proposes that we shift our thinking about academic writing from building metaphors – the language of frameworks, foundations and buttresses – to stitching, sewing and piecing. Needlecraft metaphors offer another way of thinking about the creative and generative practice of academic writing as decentred, able to accommodate multiple sources and with greater … Continue reading Material Cultures of Research: Woven into the Fabric of the Text: Subversive Material Metaphors in Academic Writing by Katie Collins