tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post847326021468295518..comments2023-10-30T12:26:15.822+01:00Comments on Research as a Second Language: Time & PersonsThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-42315533652937040642014-04-01T10:55:22.582+02:002014-04-01T10:55:22.582+02:00Interesting question. There are certainly connecti...Interesting question. There are certainly connections between authority (authorial persona), presence, voice and perspective, but I'm not sure I can provide any rigorous definitions that keeps them completely distinct.<br /><br />I'm not sure that I'd make voice a sine qua non of academic writing. Except in the minimal sense that you must have <i>a</i> voice. It's not vital that you find out exactly who you are, i.e., what your "authentic" voice sounds like, in order to write academically. But you must find a working way of being present in your discourse.<br /><br />I once wrote a post about Gertrude Stein's <a href="http://secondlanguage.blogspot.dk/2009/09/being-there-presence.html" rel="nofollow">"there's no there there"</a>, which might shed light on this. Interestingly, she is arguably a writer with a voice entirely he own and a (resolute) <i>lack</i> of presence, <a href="http://secondlanguage.blogspot.dk/2010/12/clear-and-present-grammar.html" rel="nofollow">as I've argued elsewhere</a>.<br /><br />Thanks for getting me to think about it again. I'll take it up in a later post.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-51017925971928204232014-03-31T15:11:23.369+02:002014-03-31T15:11:23.369+02:00This is a provocative post. It has provoked me to ...This is a provocative post. It has provoked me to ask if and how you would distinguish between presence and a couple of other common terms used in matching writing to the self: voice and perspective. I was told many years go by a research mentor that I was a poor (academic) writer because I hadn't found my voice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com