Writing as Cognition

Authors
Publication date 2020
Host editors
  • C. McGranahan
Book title Writing Anthropology
Book subtitle Essays on Craft and Commitment
ISBN
  • 9781478008125
  • 9781478006848
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781478009160
Chapter 49
Pages (from-to) 263-265
Publisher Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract I will know what I precisely want to say in this piece only when I finish writing it.

This enigmatic sentence is not meant as an alluring opening statement, nor is it a sign for an experimental literary method that I will be employing in this essay. For what it’s worth, this sentence captures my principal insight into the process of writing. It is an insight that I gained after years of experiencing much frustration with writing, after producing endless drafts of the same text, after nights and days spent on trying “to get it right,” after struggling not to...
Document type Chapter
Language English
Other links https://www.dukeupress.edu/writing-anthropology
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