“Academic writing is often
described as a kind of conversation. You read a text, you talk about it, you
put down some thoughts in response, others respond to your comments, and so on.
Compares this idea to a person entering a room during a heated conversion that
cannot be stopped to explain and yet every person has walked in and has not received
any explanation of what they have missed. The individual takes part in the
discussion and when they leave the discussion still continues. To me this
reflects that writing is not being meant to have a definitive beginning or end
but to just be a continual flow of information, ideas, and discussion. Something
that anyone can pick up in the middle and add something of their own and then allow
the next person to contribute another continuous thought.“It suggests that the goal of
such writing is not to have the final word on the subject.” We do not want to
end the conversation; we want to perpetuate it. I do not think any blog or
any writing can really exist without the concept of forwarding. People have
been writing for so long that most of what people can think to originally say
has been said. Now it is just a matter of adding to the conversation, then
other people adding to what you have contributed and so on and so on.
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