You Have to Use Writing to Help Yourself Do Your Thinking Larry McEnerney

Unlike a journalist, almost surely you are using your writing process to help yourself think.

In other words, the thinking that you’re doing is at such a level of complexity that you have to use writing to help yourself do your thinking.

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Comment: Larry argues that, unlike the common belief that thinking and writing are separate processes, experts often use writing as a means to think through complex ideas. He contrasts this with the approach taught in high school, where students are often instructed to complete their thinking before beginning to write. He suggests that the complexity of the ideas experts engage with necessitates the use of writing as a thinking tool.

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