Answer/Quote: “I can’t remember ever learning to write a critical
essay. How do I know how to do the things I do? …. The obvious answer—the one I
would give my own students if they are asking me the same question—is that I’ve
learned by reading. But I am not satisfied with that answer Because the kind of
writing I have written as a graduate student is not the kind of writing I’m
reading. I read scholarship that is innovative and surprising, work that expands
my perspective and work that I admire. And though my writing at times
approaches innovation and surprise, I am not always sure how I have achieved
that effect and how I can replicate it. More often, my writing feels tired,
overwrought, self-conscious…. Where did I learn to be boring? How can I unlearn
it?” p. 485.
Comment:
Good question. RayS.
Title:
“Toward Graduate-Level Writing Instruction.” Laura R Micciche with Allison JD.
Carr. College Composition and
Communication (February 2011),
477-501.
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