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getting unstuck: the cat formerly known as a blogger

  • Posted on January 24, 2012
  • by Cat

I’m feeling a little like a former blogger these days. I know blogging is good for me and I want to blog, but it seems that I let everything else come before blogging. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a big…

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Writers’ Bootcamp: Organizing Intrusive Thoughts

  • Posted on July 30, 2011
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Writers’ Bootcamp: Organizing Intrusive Thoughts

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  • as a scholar

finding the right/write words

  • Posted on April 19, 2010
  • by Cat

A challenge when writing is always finding the right words to express oneself. When writing about the experiences of others, this becomes even more of a challenge. Add to those challenges the word choices made when writing scholarship that anlayzes…

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  • as a scholar

following my own advice

  • Posted on April 17, 2010
  • by Cat

I haven’t had much time to blog lately because of all of my dissertation work. For a while I found that the blogging was helping my writing process, but then I got a little freaked out about the possibility that…

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  • as a scholar

jargon and more jargon equals inaccessible knowledge

  • Posted on April 17, 2010
  • by Cat

A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Bad Writing and Bad Thinking – Do Your Job Better” provides much-needed commentary on the quality of writing in academic scholarship. I have often argued that scholarly writing tends to be…

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