{"id":298,"date":"2018-02-05T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T22:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/?p=298"},"modified":"2018-02-05T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T22:08:23","slug":"writing-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2018\/02\/05\/writing-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all think we write the truth, right?\u00a0 We all hope we are.\u00a0 But what I&#8217;ve found is that when I know I&#8217;ve found a problem in my writing&#8211;that there&#8217;s something that doesn&#8217;t make sense or isn&#8217;t logical&#8211;the problem is that I haven&#8217;t uncovered the Truth for that paper.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And further, usually, writing that Truth means admitting some sort of vulnerability, usually in my logic.\u00a0 Once I do that, the Truth always seems to come forward and reveal itself and vastly improve my paper.<\/p>\n<p>Writing is weird, eh?\u00a0 I&#8217;m writing right now.\u00a0 (HA!) But writing about how to write is so dang hard.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe talking about it will make it simpler:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mvg3yRcGG6s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all think we write the truth, right?\u00a0 We all hope we are.\u00a0 But what I&#8217;ve found is that when I know I&#8217;ve found a problem in my writing&#8211;that there&#8217;s something that doesn&#8217;t make sense or isn&#8217;t logical&#8211;the problem is that I haven&#8217;t uncovered the Truth for that paper. &nbsp; And further, usually, writing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67nDP-4O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":262,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2014\/05\/13\/writing-by-hand\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":0},"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 &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2014\/02\/21\/writing-and-thinking-and-theorizing\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":1},"title":"Writing and Thinking and Theorizing","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"February 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":267,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2014\/07\/10\/mom-working\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":2},"title":"Working Mom","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"July 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In conjunction with my personal blog, I'm posting about my summer \u00a0work schedule. \u00a0This\u00a0entry focuses on the \"Working\" aspect of being a professor who is also \u00a0a mother (i.e., a MoFessor). 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