It’s been a difficult semester for me, as can be seen by how little I have posted here. The long and short of it is that outside stress has forced me to take a step back and find a new way to do what used to come easily for me: writing papers. When in a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘writing’
The embarrassment of resetting
Posted: March 24, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Lessons, Rumination, School, writing
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Why I don’t like the term “Rough Draft”
Posted: December 29, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Pedagogy, Rumination, writing
I mentioned this a while ago, but nothing I ever write is ‘rough.’ Not even this post. Even though I’m writing it as I come up with what I want to say, I still won’t call it rough. One way to read what I’m saying is to think that I’m suggesting that everything I write, [...]
How do you write an academic paper?
Posted: November 19, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Rumination, School, writing
I wish I could say that someone had asked me this question, expecting that I would somehow be an authority on it. But that’s just not true. The truth is, I was wondering about the way I write papers, and how that’s changed over time. When I was in high school, the one time I [...]