A handbook for Exploratory Action Research

9.2 Sharing your research by writing
Back in Chapter One we saw some of the images teachers 
have about research and tried to show how they can be 
revised. One of these concerned writing: 
A major worry teachers have about research is that it will 
involve them in a lot of academic writing, for which they
do not have time. We’d like to show how writing can be
built up to – from the kind of oral presentation described 
in the last section, to wider sharing via writing.
There are many ways that you can write about your 
research, ranging from informal brief accounts that may 
only take a few hours to write, to academic articles that
can take much longer. Let’s look at some of the options:
From oral presentation to written report
What we are suggesting here is that you take the recording 
from your oral presentation, transcribe it, edit it and share 
it as a written report. In other words, writing can come after 
a spoken presentation that has been recorded. For this, you 
need the file of the recording, a laptop and headphones. 
Instead of worrying about issues such as style and format, 
just listen to the recording and type what you hear, then edit 
to add detail or to delete things you don’t want to share in 
writing, and to improve grammar and vocabulary choices. 
You can then add photographs to support comprehension 
and you’re done! We do advise that you show this written 
report to a colleague to give you feedback. Sometimes 
things are clear for us (because we have done it!) but not 
clear for others. So asking a colleagues to read it and give 
you feedback is always useful. 
You could share the final written report via social media,
or as part of an account of the workshop where you 
presented. You could even turn it into a short blog post.
Task 9.5 
Let’s look at an example from a teacher you know – Andrea, 
whose poster is Poster A in task 9.3. She recorded her talk, 
listened to the recording and transcribed almost exactly 
what she heard. The result was uploaded to the Champion 
Teachers website. Visit the page, listen to her recording 
here 
http://championteachers.weebly.com/andrea-robles.
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 and answer the following two questions: