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Writer's Block attempted solution #1: looking for...

7/25/2018

 
I'm in the middle of trying to (unproductively) revise my prospectus, which for my program, is a 2-page, single-spaced document that outlines what I hope will be my dissertation, and covers the following sections:
  • What is the issue I am looking at and interested in (the research agenda),
  • How have people been looking at it and how will my dissertation help the field better understand this issue (the literature review),
  • How have people thought and conceptualized about this issue (the theoretical framework), and
  • How am I trying to answer the research questions I'm posing (the methods)

While I have one draft ready, it's definitely a product of a 2AM, caffeine binge so I've been trying to redo the introduction. The process has been... trying... to. say. the. least. So, for inspiration, I decided to stray from academic reading and looked up (apparently) the "100 Best First Lines from Novels" from American Book Review.  After perusing the first couple, some of which I recognized, I also realized that the "100 best" has a lot of people in the 19th and 20th centuries— particularly white males. The list was a sharp reminder about how best often means the most dominant group, and those with the most power. And while I can admit there are some great openers on the list, I think I'll be more selective about how I go about finding "the best" book openers because so much brilliance, especially with marginalized and minoritized voices, is unheard, unacknowledged, unread, and unseen. (Patricia Hill Collins, whose book, Black Feminist Thought (link), writes brilliantly about this btw.) 

So if you have any recommendations and inspirations, please, send them my way. 

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