{"id":259,"date":"2014-02-21T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/?p=259"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:22:52","slug":"writing-and-thinking-and-theorizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2014\/02\/21\/writing-and-thinking-and-theorizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing and Thinking and Theorizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m teaching my Writing And Thinking in the Organizational Sciences graduate class again<\/a>. \u00a0(Wow! \u00a0My academic blog is two years old. \u00a0I really need to post more often) \u00a0This is a course that I took with Allan Wicker<\/a> many years ago and is based upon Allan’s (1985) paper on getting out of one’s conceptual ruts<\/a>. \u00a0 The gist of this course is to help the students think deeply and creatively about their research topics while also discussing issues of writing and working effectively.<\/p>\n

I have to be honest: \u00a0it’s an amazing class (if I do say so myself). \u00a0I can see the intellectual growth among the students. \u00a0In this last exercise, in which the students conducted a analysis of their major concepts, I could actually see the wheels turning and the Deep Thoughts Being Thunk.<\/p>\n

Here’s the other things that is quite exciting to me: \u00a0Allan was quite prescient in his Conceptual Ruts paper. \u00a0It took 30 years or so, but some of the A level journals (specifically Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review among others) are starting<\/a> to advocate some of the exercises<\/a> to their authors, even though they neglect the origins of these ideas in Allan’s paper.<\/p>\n

I also realize that I might be able to better publicize this class–and what we’re doing in it–as “theorizing.” \u00a0That’s certainly the approach that AMJ<\/a> and AMR<\/a> are taking.<\/p>\n

I would love to turn this course into a book for other social science graduate programs to use to help their PhD students develop and apply theory to their research. \u00a0((I’m waiting for the next sentence to jump into my head and out of my fingers to conclude this essay. \u00a0I’ve been waiting a long time.))<\/p>\n

So let’s just finish it here by adding that the other parts of the class are on WRITING and secrets to PRODUCTIVITY. Because all the great thoughts (and book ideas) don’t add up to diddly squat until we get our booties in the chair and put the words down on paper. \u00a0And then edit them. \u00a0And re-edit them. \u00a0And edit them again. \u00a0And have a few friendly (or not) reviewers tell us where our thoughts and writing don’t make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m teaching my Writing And Thinking in the Organizational Sciences graduate class again. \u00a0(Wow! \u00a0My academic blog is two years old. \u00a0I really need to post more often) \u00a0This is a course that I took with Allan Wicker many years ago and is based upon Allan’s (1985) paper on getting out of one’s conceptual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67nDP-4b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":180,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2012\/04\/20\/writing-and-thinking-thinking-and-writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":259,"position":0},"title":"Writing and Thinking: Thinking and Writing","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"April 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It has taken me forever to get this post up on my blog! \u00a0I am finally being shamed into finishing up this post after drinks, snacks, and dinner with my students last night. \u00a0Why so hard to write? \u00a0I think it's because one becomes very self-conscious about writing when one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":262,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2014\/05\/13\/writing-by-hand\/","url_meta":{"origin":259,"position":1},"title":"Writing By Hand","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"May 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"So \u00a0sometime during the last semester, a study came out demonstrating that taking notes by hand (i.e., writing) helps students retain more information than typing notes on their keyboard. \u00a0I posted that to both my undergrad and graduate class online pages. \u00a0But it ended \u00a0up sparking a discussion a few\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":343,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2018\/10\/18\/your-students-are-cheating\/","url_meta":{"origin":259,"position":2},"title":"Your Students Are Cheating","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"October 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"So, this is not a comfortable topic. 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