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Dot dot dot
Mashing together two prompts today: Wendy’s post for #MoDigiWri and the Daily Create also for today. I visited the Dotsies site and grabbed the bookmarklet up to my tool bar, then headed over to Wendy’s blog and applied it, screen shot … Continue reading
Posted in DailyCreate, DS106, Writing
Tagged #modigiwri, digital writing, dots, dotsies, writing
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Authentic writing and academic voice
A meeting with my supervisors this week to discuss some of my work. A good meeting – they like my writing, they’re confident in my ability to finish writing up this PhD. Then Vic speaks. He tells me that he … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, academic writing, authenticity, the myth of objectivity, writing
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Why I write
I write because I’m happy I write because I’m angry I write because I’m sad I write because I care I write because I can I write because I can’t not I write because I’m human I write because I write
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Learning, Online learning, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, #ndow #ds106 #tdc2111, writing
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Why I write
The Daily Create today asks for us to answer the question “Why I write”. So why do I write? I write because I am angry, I write because I am sad, I write to get my thoughts clear in my … Continue reading
Posted in DailyCreate, DS106, Writing
Tagged #DS106, #tdc1747, national writing day, writing
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Meaning versus inspiring
I’ve been thinking again about Cath Ellis’s blog post encouraging #rhizo14 participants to read D&G in the original and wondering if it really matters what an original meant when they wrote something, or whether it’s what it inspires in others … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, D&G, Reading, Wittgenstein, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, D&G, Reading, Wittgenstein, writing
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Rules for writing well
I’ve just finished Michael Billig’s book Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences and enjoyed it very much. The overall message of the book is that writers (he says social scientists, but I think this applies more widely … Continue reading
Book Lists
I’m an inveterate list maker, oft in my head, sometimes on paper, and I have a new project. A friend posted a couple of pictures to my Facebook feed, one of a book bath, one of a library, and they’ve … Continue reading
On Procrastination
I was in my garden yesterday planting flowers and generally avoiding doing any research on the grounds that the plants couldn’t wait (not true – they’d have been fine till the weekend). I began to think about the ways in … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged procrastination, Socrates, writing
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