One use for a blog is to liberate me \u2013 as a writer \u2013 from strict styles of writing (as I understand them). For academic writing this means that I can try, here, to spell out what it is I think and know more freely. No less factually, but with\u2026 less infrastructure required?<\/p>\n
Why? I\u2019ve struggled at times with writer\u2019s block when it comes to my own work. When writing for others, or as a contribution to something I\u2019m working on together with other active authors, I don\u2019t have the same struggles. Mostly because it\u2019s not purely to be \u201cmy work\u201d, but partly because many of the word choice, structure or message decisions are either someone else\u2019s or I share that responsibility with another person (or persons). And no, I don\u2019t mean Chat GPT; I won\u2019t use an \u201cAI\u201d as a co-author for something that I feel matters. New knowledge and thinking matters \u2013 an LLM is not that creative.<\/p>\n
Yet, I suppose. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
Back to the point.<\/p>\n
What I\u2019m going to do here through the medium of my blog is to try to express my thinking of and on legitimacy. This will be (a foreshadowing of?) the points I make in my dissertation project. Points that I have partly written, but mostly so far only carry in my head. Writer\u2019s block you know. And a little bit of \u201cfear of the final\u201d. Here I think I can avoid at least the pressure to be exactly right in the final version even if the dissertation draft is only a first draft. There\u2019s a lot of weight on it. This\u2019ll be a public draft if you will.<\/p>\n
For someone to copy? Chat GPT will for sure. So will some second rate academic somewhere. No way to avoid that anymore. Anyway. Was here first.<\/p>\n
Mostly though I think it\u2019ll be useful for me to get my thoughts straight (or more convoluted!) which should help get the dissertation part written out. Also, I think it\u2019ll be useful for practitioners \u2013 It\u2019ll be a bit more accessible hopefully.<\/p>\n
So, here\u2019s how I\u2019ll proceed with this series:<\/p>\n
The above may change.<\/p>\n
I might publish these all in one lump. But as separate posts. Lets see.<\/p>\n
Oh, and I’ve been a bit ill and a bit busy sorting things out, trying to write, and a bit ill again. Hence the “getting back at it”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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