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Writing | Thinking Revising. Research Paper Process. The Final Paper!. Lynn Hunt former president, American Historical Association Professor of History, UCLA.
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Lynn Huntformer president, American Historical AssociationProfessor of History, UCLA …writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently. “How Writing Leads to Thinking (And not the other way around)” Perspectives on History, February 2010
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith American sports writer, 1905-1982 There's nothing to writing.
Funny lines + good advice • Getting started • Short Assignments • Shitty First Drafts … • False Starts … • How Do You Know When You’re Done?
Writing as thinking process • Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it. ~ Anne Lamott • Lynn Hunt’s “radish rule.”
Work in Progress A chapter draft in 2011 (the first time I gave this presentation)
Three Years Later Ross Dunn and Laura J. Mitchell, Panorama: A History of Humankind McGraw-Hill, 2014
Strategies for Revision • Don’t be afraid of “drafty” drafts • Highlight your holes • Collaborate: have other people read your work • Read your prose out loud • Proofread carefully(Microsoft claims to be able to due this for you, but in fat is very bag at it.)