http://blogs.qc.cuny.edu/blogs/revisions/ Latest comments for Revisions 2009 en-us Fri, 08 May 2009 12:44:27 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=1.02 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://blogs.qc.cuny.edu/blogs/revisions/inspiration/nielsen.html#comments <p>Thanks for your comment Peter. You address two points that I find really important: the rigidity of the outline system (or, at least how most of us are taught to use it as students and continue to teach it as professors) and the feeling that not being able to follow such a system creates in the student. Often, I think, a student who experiences trouble in trying to write with an outline system will focus much more on the rigidity of an outline (often in a dictated format that might be completely un-organic and foreign to the student's thought process), than on developing actual ideas for the paper. Of course any piece of writing should be well-structured but when that structuring takes place is the question. An outline can be done when the first draft is written and there is actual material to outline from instead of arranging clouds of thin air into sections. Thanks for sharing your own experience.</p> <p>- Ken</p> comment022993@http://blogs.qc.cuny.edu/blogs/revisions/ Fri, 08 May 2009 12:44:27 -0500 http://blogs.qc.cuny.edu/blogs/revisions/inspiration/nielsen.html#comments <p>really like this first one. (haven't read the others yet) Since it mirrors my experience with learning to write papers. I could never ever work with the outline system. I thought there was something wrong with me, while all the other students, at least appeared outwardly, to adapt to that system so naturally. Looking back, and now especially after reading this, I really think it's a totally ass-backwards system, and that I could have benefited tremendously from understanding that much earlier on. Write first, organize after!</p> <p>- Peter Hale</p> comment022990@http://blogs.qc.cuny.edu/blogs/revisions/ Fri, 08 May 2009 11:15:02 -0500