I just re-read the intro to _In the Cells of the Eggplant_, which I wrote 2.5 years ago. It was shockingly bad. Juvenile & off-point. Having not had much time to write since then, I wouldn’t have expected any intellectual maturing… background process?https://meaningness.com/eggplant/opening …
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I’ve removed some of the worst bits. Writing a new intro seems high priority… even if it’s another throw-away to help me understand what the rest of the book needs to cover.
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I find that surprisingly often, if I write a bad draft introduction and then the meat of the content, the section that comes right after the introduction actually serves as a reasonable *actual* introduction. Deleting the old introduction might be all that I need to do.
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(unfortunately, this doesn't *always* work)
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I think intros to papers function like an contextual index of the whole piece, and often writing is an emergent process, especially if what is communicated is not entirely functional like a set of instructions. The inability to write an intro from the get go can be a feature
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Draft the title and the conclusion first. Later, data won't fit into your narrative & you'll change them several times over, but they're the most important parts of your paper and should be treated as such from the very beginning.
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