{"id":34819,"date":"2024-01-11T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=34819"},"modified":"2024-01-12T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:36:41","slug":"at-least-theres-no-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/at-least-theres-no-math\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least There’s No Math…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing was and is my biggest concern in this program and was actually one of the things that prevented me from starting earlier. There are two things against me. Firstly, I am a self-professed standard writer, certainly not an academic writer. The second is that I have always been a slow word-for-word reader, and as Alder and Van Doren portrayed in How to Read a Book<\/em>“=, slow reading does not mean I will not remember much. I can attest to that.\u00a0 I will say that reading their book has made me much more excited to be in this program and start learning. It just made sense.<\/p>\n

One of my hopes in my writing is that academic thinking and writing will evolve in me through this process. I remember 10 years after graduating from college, running across a paper I wrote and being shocked by the vocabulary and style I wrote. I couldn’t believe I actually wrote it. I write like I think, and I know that is not what is required of me. My goal is to read peer-reviewed articles and learn from the giants in my field, which will help facilitate a better vocabulary and understanding of how to be an academic writer.<\/p>\n

One of the best things I did in college was read How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life<\/em>\u00a0by Alan Lakein in my first year. It taught me the value of writing things down and numbering them in importance in order to get things done, a tool I use to this day.\u00a0 I saw a correlation in the methods Ahrens wrote in “How to Take Smart Notes.” I know myself well enough to know that I am as detailed as what I read, but perhaps a combination of the two books would work.\u00a0 I believe taking notes will be much easier for me than reading and academic writing because I take notes all day for my work, but I use virtual sticky notes on my laptop. Recently, I started using OneNote and want to learn more about it. I hope to develop my own version of Luhmann’s note-taking style, except it would be in OneNote. I want to learn more about his style and make it my own.<\/p>\n

All in all, I know that I have a lot to remember from 10 years ago when I was in the Master’s program. I need to learn to stop worrying about my self-doubt and fears, and I can only do what I can. My prayer is that my academic writing and reading will be easier over time between books like we have just read, and learning from the style of authors in the books and articles I will be reading. The online learning platform plays well with who I am and how I learn. I believe that the weekly readings, writing posts, and reading others’ posts will help me learn to think differently than from the sedentary life I have been living.<\/p>\n

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Writing was and is my biggest concern in this program and was actually one of the things that prevented me from starting earlier. There are two things against me. Firstly, I am a self-professed standard writer, certainly not an academic writer. The second is that I have always been a slow word-for-word reader, and as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2987,2490,2980,660,2967],"class_list":["post-34819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-criticalthinking","tag-howtoreadabook","tag-smartnotes","tag-adler","tag-dlgp03","cohort-dlgp03"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34876,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34819\/revisions\/34876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}