tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post1280789543328109932..comments2023-10-30T12:26:15.822+01:00Comments on Research as a Second Language: What to DoThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-41004963473493389052014-12-07T21:47:12.384+01:002014-12-07T21:47:12.384+01:00I agree that there is a kind of writing that const...I agree that there is a kind of writing that constitutes inquiry. I simply insist that, in addition to that kind of writing, there is a kind of writing that consists simply in writing down what you know.<br /><br />To practice (in both senses)* this kind of writing, you don't need to know <i>exactly</i> what you know, nor even exactly what you want to say, you just have to decide what you want to try for twenty-seven minutes to say in a single paragraph. I'm not saying there aren't any other kinds of writing. I'm drawing attention to a kind of writing that is, all too often, neglected, and which many writers would do well to work at a bit more deliberately.<br /><br />By conflating "writing as inquiry" with "writing for publication" you are likely to undermine both processes. There is no academic discipline in which <i>all</i> writing is <i>always</i> also inquiry, though there are many scholars who have been made unhappy by thinking so.<br />___________<br />*i.e., in the both in sense of doing it in a regular, orderly fashion, and in the sense of doing it for sake of improving your ability to do it.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-54490000512923819192014-12-07T11:09:06.094+01:002014-12-07T11:09:06.094+01:00There's a big assumption in this - that you al...There's a big assumption in this - that you already know *exactly* what you know and what you want to say. Maybe in scientific disciplines that is the case... but that's not generalisable to *all* academic disciplines, in my experience. See for example Daniel Doherty's "writing as inquiry" - writing can also be a process of clarification. Your guidelines seem to assume that that process has already taken place - correct me if I'm wrong.Fideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14276391355559305054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-25775117009010449442012-11-23T14:39:31.190+01:002012-11-23T14:39:31.190+01:00Postponed until next week. (Had to spend a good pa...Postponed until next week. (Had to spend a good part of the session talking about plagiarism ...)Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-31882970658960960112012-11-21T17:54:31.794+01:002012-11-21T17:54:31.794+01:00That's cheerful news! Let me know how it goes....That's cheerful news! Let me know how it goes. If they'll let you, send me some results to post! Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-24412717241712299352012-11-21T17:46:45.690+01:002012-11-21T17:46:45.690+01:00I'll be adapting this for students to do an in...I'll be adapting this for students to do an in-class exercise tomorrow morning, on Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death."Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.com