WRITING WITH POWER … MEANS GETTING POWER OVER YOURSELF &

OVER THE WRITING PROCESS

- PETER ELBOW, U MASSACHUSETTS -AMHERST

“Dissertation” is no one’s first language (and neither is

“Academic”)

Michael Small @ shuttermike.com

Norman Jackson, Developing Creativity Through Lifewide Education

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Flourishing

To flourish means to live within an optimal

range of human functioning, one that connotes

goodness, generativity, growth and resilience.

positive affect widens scope of attention broadens behavioral repertoires / flexibility increases intuition and creativity positive impact on physical and mental health

“Positive Affect and Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing” American Psychologist

Resilience

selection from Robert Boice’s How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency (1994

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No more “Yes, but…”

More of “Yes, and…”

think dialecticallyemploy practical logic

know how (& why) you (don’t) knowengage in critical reflection

RESEARCH = LEARNING = WORK

We write to work out what we think.

Barbara Kamler and Pat Thomson

READING TO LEARNWRITING TO LEARNRESPONSES TO LEARNING

Gather Data

Reflect

Create

Test

Work Out Ideas

Work

Work Ideas

Out Ideas

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Writing to Learn: Possible Pathways

http://stevendkrause.com/tprw/introduction.html

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P romoting O utstanding W riting for E xcellence in R esearch

P romoting O urselvesW riting for E ngaging in R esearch