Comments on: On writing http://syndicateandhague.com/2009/04/20/on-writing/ It's just an intersection Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:04:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Shai http://syndicateandhague.com/2009/04/20/on-writing/#comment-295 Shai Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:27:04 +0000 http://syndicateandhague.com/?p=208#comment-295 I have started a Blog to follow nearly every major research project I've done. I almost never write in those and have managed to only keep up with a single blog - which is totally unrelated to my research (although directly connected to my interests). Yet I keep setting them up in this wierd attempt to be both accessible and to pin down my thought process. I think what I've learned is that I have either no thought process or a process that is so messy it can't seem to find it's way onto paper. It's also been a lesson that blogging is useful for clarifying and formulating thoughts but only if they are my interest of the moment rather than in the longer term process of keeping a project going to completion. I have started a Blog to follow nearly every major research project I’ve done. I almost never write in those and have managed to only keep up with a single blog - which is totally unrelated to my research (although directly connected to my interests). Yet I keep setting them up in this wierd attempt to be both accessible and to pin down my thought process.

I think what I’ve learned is that I have either no thought process or a process that is so messy it can’t seem to find it’s way onto paper. It’s also been a lesson that blogging is useful for clarifying and formulating thoughts but only if they are my interest of the moment rather than in the longer term process of keeping a project going to completion.

]]> By: Anne http://syndicateandhague.com/2009/04/20/on-writing/#comment-294 Anne Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:14:32 +0000 http://syndicateandhague.com/?p=208#comment-294 It's funny--the advice I give my students w/r/t tone and the ever-tricky questions of "authenticity" is to write as if they were writing for a really smart blog. There's still the expectation of content--backing up your sources, etc., but you don't feel the same kind of pressure to bullshittily "smarten up" your language. There's no such thing as empirical writing, anyway. It’s funny–the advice I give my students w/r/t tone and the ever-tricky questions of “authenticity” is to write as if they were writing for a really smart blog. There’s still the expectation of content–backing up your sources, etc., but you don’t feel the same kind of pressure to bullshittily “smarten up” your language.

There’s no such thing as empirical writing, anyway.

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