{"id":2087,"date":"2021-05-18T15:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:54:05","slug":"how-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/how-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love my old friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?s=mayhew\">Jonathan Mayhew&#8217;s prose<\/a>. His blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/prosedoctor.blogspot.com\/\">Stupid Motivational Tricks (Scholarly Writing and How to Get it Done)<\/a>, is often very charming (and it is always illuminating). Read this bit on the use of &#8220;scare quotes.&#8221; The last sentence is beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Obviously, (well, obviously to me),\u00a0this mannerism arose out of deconstruction. All of sudden the &#8220;language&#8221; we use to describe &#8220;things&#8221; came into &#8220;question.&#8221;\u00a0 It seemed &#8220;naive&#8221; to use words that were &#8220;problematic&#8221; in this way, so everything had to be put\u00a0<s>under erasure<\/s>.\u00a0 Since we still had to use words to &#8220;communicate,&#8221; we could &#8220;signal&#8221; our distance &#8220;from&#8221; them typographically.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p><em>A word like &#8220;aesthetic&#8221; could be used, but only in quotes, otherwise the reader might think we actually believe in &#8220;aesthetics,&#8221; god forbid. The word in italics functions in the opposite way: here we are saying that this word solves our problems, as in the word\u00a0<\/em>cultural<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Here we are saying that this word solves our problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my old friend Jonathan Mayhew&#8217;s prose. His blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks (Scholarly Writing and How to Get it Done), is often very charming (and it is always illuminating). Read this bit on the use of &#8220;scare quotes.&#8221; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/how-to-write\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,62],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-academic-writing","tag-mayhew"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}