播客：李连江谈在学术界谋生存

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“播客：李连江谈在学术界谋生存” (2021-11-20 11:44)

https://anchor.fm/randomwalktheory/episodes/Ep17-e196ca9/a-a6oleo2

• 谈方法是一件很无奈的事情，因为自己已经开始做不动研究。
• 对于所有方法都知道一点，当你需要的时候才去搞精通。
• 实在的建议是天天写。
• 九成写，一成看！
• 写就是想，想就是写。一定是用手思考。
• 在写的时候，一定要有很清晰的读者意识：我现在写的东西，对于别人是否有价值！
• 找到别人的痛和痒。
• 要追求清楚明白。
• 最大的挫折感是一定要用英语谋生。
• 读书不算工作，想问题不算工作，只有写作的时候才是在工作。
• 师生要对双方有用。
• 学者的一个生命周期是24小时，始终与焦虑共存。要在黄金时间还债，做最重要的事。

Larry McEnerney, Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program, led this session in an effort to communicate helpful rules, skills, and resources that are available to graduate students interested in further developing their writing style.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av54440640/

写作最重要的一点是要有价值！

1. what the paper will be about
2. what the paper will argue
3. tell you what question (you have) the paper will answer

好的写作应当以读者为中心，回答读者的问题。

摘录YouTube上的一个很好的评论，帮助大家阅览： Tom Hosiawa

• Step 1: use your writing to help you think.

• Step 2: you think writing is communicating your ideas to your readers.

• It is not! Nobody cares what ideas you have.

• use your writing to change your reader's ideas.

• Change the way they see the world.

• This goes for your expert readers too. They don’t care too.

• If it doesn’t change their worldview, it’s not valuable.

• If it’s not valuable, the rest is useless

1. Valuable
2. Persuasive
3. Organized
4. Cleaner

Search the title "LEADERSHIP LAB: the Craft of Writing Effectively".

• Value lies only in the readers, not in the thing.
• The patterns you use for steps 1 and 2 are different.
• Try this:

  • circle every word in your writing that is creating value to the readers.

  • guess what? soon you will have your own list of invaluable words to check your own writing against.

  • The horrible irony: the language we use is of stability and consistency. But your readers are searching for a language of instability, inconsistency, and tension.

  • Use language to show your readers there’s a cost on them or if the instability is solved, there’s a benefit to them.

  • Use transition words to create tension, instability to challenge their ideas
    i.e. bad: hey readers, I’ve read your stuff and wow..., I know what you think and here’s what I think...
    i.e. good: hey readers, I’ve read your stuff and wow, I know what you think but there’s little thing you’ve got here, it’s wrong...
    good tension words: inconsistent, but, however, although
    You can’t be persuasive if you don’t understand your readers doubt*. If you don’t know what they doubt, how are you going to change their worldview? You must know *them to predicate what they might say.

  • Every community has its own code. You must know what each one values.
    Identify the people with power in your community. Give them what they want (i.e. build them up) but challenge them inside the terms of their code. It’s not about your individual voice, it’s about what’s valuable to your readers.

Structure

           * Layout in your first paragraph
		* *who* your writing to,
		* What you’re going to *argue*
		* what *question* you have you will answer
		* what’s *urgent* (i.e. people value reading about tension, trouble, bad stuff  instability)

Problem:

what’s a problem your readers care about and they want to fix (not your problem).

Solution:

• Never explain stuff. Don’t demonstrate to someone you understand it. Don’t reveal the inside of your head. No one cares!
• Your goal is to move the conversation forward*.
• Not to preserve your ideas indefinitely.
• Nobody will read your work in a year.
• It’s *not about you, it’s about them