WRITING | THINKING REVISING

Research Paper Process

Research Outline Draft

The Final Paper!

Lynn Huntformer president, American Historical

AssociationProfessor of History, UCLA

…writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

“How Writing Leads to Thinking (And not the other way around)”Perspectives on History, February 2010

What research really looks like

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. 

Walter Wellesley "Red" SmithAmerican sports writer, 1905-1982

Funny lines + good advice Getting started Short Assignments Shitty First Drafts… False Starts… How Do You Know

When You’re Done?

Revision

Writing

Writing as thinking process

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it.

~ Anne Lamott

Lynn Hunt’s “radish rule.”

Work in Progress

A chapter draft in 2011 (the first time I gave this presentation)

Three Years Later

Ross Dunn and Laura J. Mitchell, Panorama: A History of HumankindMcGraw-Hill, 2014

Strategies for Revision Don’t be afraid of “drafty” drafts Highlight your holes Collaborate: have other people read your

work Read your prose out loud Proofread carefully

(Microsoft claims to be able to due this for you, but in fat is very bag at it.)