In our discussion of Stroupe's article, Visualizing English, Thursday night some of you confessed to not knowing Peter Elbow. He is my writing guru and I often refer to him when I work with students at the Writing Center at CWE. Wikipedia credits Elbow with putting "freewriting on the map." I use freewriting with any piece of writing, creative or academic, when I feel blocked or stymied (which unfortunately is all too often).
Here is a YouTube video of Elbow talking about his own writing difficulties in grad school and debunking many of the myths about how to write an academic paper. The video is long but it could be worth it.
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