dissertations - writing with power, or "academic" is no one's first language
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WRITING WITH POWER … MEANS GETTING POWER OVER YOURSELF &
OVER THE WRITING PROCESS
- PETER ELBOW, U MASSACHUSETTS -AMHERST
“Dissertation” is no one’s first language (and neither is
“Academic”)
Michael Small @ shuttermike.com
Norman Jackson, Developing Creativity Through Lifewide Education
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Flourishing
To flourish means to live within an optimal
range of human functioning, one that connotes
goodness, generativity, growth and resilience.
positive affect widens scope of attention broadens behavioral repertoires / flexibility increases intuition and creativity positive impact on physical and mental health
“Positive Affect and Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing” American Psychologist
Resilience
selection from Robert Boice’s How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency (1994
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No more “Yes, but…”
More of “Yes, and…”
think dialecticallyemploy practical logic
know how (& why) you (don’t) knowengage in critical reflection
RESEARCH = LEARNING = WORK
We write to work out what we think.
Barbara Kamler and Pat Thomson
READING TO LEARNWRITING TO LEARNRESPONSES TO LEARNING
Gather Data
Reflect
Create
Test
Work Out Ideas
Work
Work Ideas
Out Ideas
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Writing to Learn: Possible Pathways
http://stevendkrause.com/tprw/introduction.html
http://www.linkedmediagroup.com/
P romoting O utstanding W riting for E xcellence in R esearch
P romoting O urselvesW riting for E ngaging in R esearch