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When I'm editing any piece of writing, I have to leave comments. Lately, a comment I've had to leave a lot is, "I don't quite understand...
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Mar 3, 20225 min read
What is the "White Page Terror"?
I take issue with writer's block being treated like a disease unto itself, and my reason for coming to this conclusion can be...
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Dec 23, 20214 min read
"It is a story that promises to get better." - Part 1
As of now, there is no single clear definition that encompasses what writer's block is because every writer faces different sets of...
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Oct 21, 20215 min read
Shaped by Expectation - Part 4
"Good" writers are not made. They must choose to make themselves, to practice, to learn, and to develop their skills using the most...
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Sep 30, 20216 min read
Shaped by Expectation - Part 3
Writers often, naturally, seek to identify with or identify through their work. I addressed in last week's post that a common piece of...
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Sep 9, 20217 min read
Do I Know You?
The essay is known as a constant in process theory based education. Prewrite, write, revise, finalize. Many post-process theorists take...
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Sep 2, 20216 min read
Shaped by Expectation - Part 1
In academic settings, students are often expected to find the best possible way to produce fact and analysis of fact without knowing the...
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Aug 26, 20217 min read
The Importance of Making Meaning
Most post-process theorists have their own respective journeys and experiences on both the process movement and how post-process theory...
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Aug 12, 20216 min read
Revision Matters - Part 2
In the first part of this response to Nancy DeJoy's "I Was a Process Model Baby," I introduced the idea that the way discourse is often...
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Jul 29, 20217 min read
Revision Matters - Part 1
It's not uncommon to consider specific writers to be masters of their craft. Many of them might agree that they have achieved mastery....
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Jul 1, 20216 min read
Power in Practice
In past posts on post-process theory, it has been solidified that agency and power are key factors in how people conceptualize writing...
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Jun 17, 20215 min read
Demystifying Interactions With Writing
Discourse always has to come from somewhere. Thus, it is always dependent on some form of authority. It's valid to believe that the...
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Jun 3, 20216 min read
The Utility of Genre
Thank you to all of those who read and engaged with my interview with professional comedy writer and story narrator, MoonHorse (name has...
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May 27, 202110 min read
An Interview With a Professional Comedy Writer and Story Narrator - Part Two
This is the second and final part of my interview with MoonHorse. Names are censored to protect the privacy of the individual being...
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May 6, 20216 min read
Communication and Social Change
Communication theory and research provides an excellent complement to post-process theory as it is known. If you have been following this...
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Apr 15, 20216 min read
Taking Agency in Writing
Thus far, as I have been reading post-process theorists, each has personally acknowledged the revolutionary nature of process theory,...
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Apr 8, 20216 min read
The Best Possible Means of Persuasion?
Post-process theorist George Pullman in his essay entitled, "Stepping Yet Again into the Same Current," sets up a rhetorical narrative on...
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Apr 1, 20215 min read
Reinventing Writing: Is Assertiveness Always the Answer?
In my last post, "Are We Limitless," I described post-process theory according to Thomas Kent and some of the methods by which...
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Mar 25, 20215 min read
Are We Limitless? : An Introduction to Post-Process Theory
Many writers, if not all, find themselves in a frustrating place where their method of expression is limited to the language in which...
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Mar 11, 20216 min read
Wrapping Things Up: How to Resolve Conflicts
Writing, as a concept, is an abstract process in which supposed rules have so many exceptions that the most effective way to evaluate it...
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