LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
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Channel: UChicago Social Sciences
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Length: 81min 51sec (4911 seconds)
Published: Thu Jun 26 2014
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Key takeaways: 1. Read articles and circle words that signal value and community to the word. Compile a word list to use in one's own writing. 2. Value is what gets written articles accepted. 3. New knowledge doesn't mean valuable knowledge. Neither does original or clear writing. 4. No one cares what you think. They care what they think. Write to change minds. 5. These notes are mostly for academic writing. 6. An essay helps a reader understand a thing better that they want to understand well. 7. Knowledge can be imagined as a conversation where some topics are kept and some are discarded. 8. Change other people's thoughts. He really hits this point hard multiple times throughout the lecture. 9. Knowledge is as valuable to the creator as coal is to the miner. It is a creatable commodity we generate. 10. A better introduction than the background then thesis model is one where there is a problem and then solution.
Larry McEnerney! I took the two-quarter Little Red Schoolhouse course with him! Best, most useful class I took, hands down. I copied all of my notes from the class so I could have them at work and have a spare in case my original copy craps out from overuse. I'm ecstatic that he's finally getting some love on Reddit.
I think academic writing is one of the hugest "how the sausage is made" fields we have. It's a field that is widely respected and something everyone aspires too. We all want to be seen as clever and be people who are respected for our knowledge. But when it comes to it there is so much bullshit in this field and so much terrible and pretentious writing that it consumes the field. Maybe 50% of what we were given to read when I took my degree was really hard to read just because it was that badly written. Complicated phrases and sentences used to even explain very simple things. Sometimes you figure out what they are trying to say and you discover that their main idea is something very simple and silly. Then you wonder why you just spent 2 weeks reading 300 pages about this simple idea and how you can even use it? And the next book on your pensum is by the same writer and the very same idea yet again explained in 300 pages. I at least figured out that having something intelligent to say is not always the most important thing. It's often about saying it in an academic way.
Thank you for sharing this, it was absolutely fantastic.
Really very interesting :-)
Helpful and upsetting? Psshh.
15 minutes in. Shit.
Anyone has the handout he used for this lecture?
🤔 You say it's helpful and upsetting? Am I the only one who noticed that? What do you mean about it being upsetting?