When scientists and scholars compose papers, articles and monographs, is it really only a matter of “writing up” what they by then already know? Could it also be that in the attempt to articulate our knowledge new discoveries are made?
Co-hosted by the A.N.U.’s Humanities Research Centre and the University of Canberra’s Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, this one-day, cross-disciplinary symposium considered the possibility that, far from being simply ancillary, the act of writing constitutes a key plank in scientific and scholarly method.