Insight from writing course I ran: 90% of teaching, "R&D" on writing is abt persuasion+correctness, not interestingness 😕
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We don't teach/research "how to think more important, interesting, valuable thoughts" as a culture. We think that stuff precedes the writing
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It's the distinction between teaching prospecting and mining versus teaching ore-refining and jewelry/weapon making
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what do you mean? what's a 'university writing center'? Like Oberlin's summer school for fiction or something?
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