Saturday, June 2, 2012

Becoming a specialist without knowing it

I had woken up at 5:00 and started working by 7:00 which I continued at full throttle until a meeting at 3:00.  That meeting was hard to sit through. I don't know why I did!  It would have been easy to make an excuse.  I did get good feedback on my writing, though. Good, in the sense that it is always useful.  It was frustrating - basically, "we don't understand what you're trying to say." and it should be "more accessible."

Always what you want to hear.

And. . .I was exhausted, so I didn't have the mental wherewithal to question and figure out what next steps I could take to address that.  They did suggest I explain what postcolonial theory was.

You know, no big deal.

Aren't I supposed to be writing to other scholars? Yet, what they're saying is true: a writer's job is to make meaning clear. I admit, though, at times it would be nice if the reader would work a little harder. . .



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