{"id":2318,"date":"2022-06-13T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2022-06-13T09:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:19:46","slug":"stanford-universitys-writing-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/stanford-universitys-writing-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford University&#8217;s &#8220;Writing Matters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My former haunt, Stanford University&#8217;s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful &#8220;Writing Matters&#8221; series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing \u201cwriting\u2019s connection with academic and personal success.\u201d Below Margot Gerritsen, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, explains that \u201cWriting stories is absolutely pivotal. If I can\u2019t write a good story, sell what I\u2019m doing, make cases and arguments for continued funding, I\u2019m nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Writing Matters:  Margot Gerritsen, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6fyV5er5sRs?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pwr.stanford.edu\/about-pwr\/past-initiatives\/writing-matters-faculty-edition\">professors&#8217; videos<\/a>, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/pwr.stanford.edu\/about-pwr\/past-initiatives\/writing-matters-student-edition\">the students&#8217;<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here is <a href=\"https:\/\/hume.stanford.edu\/resources\/student-resources\/writing-resources\">the new Writing Resources page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My former haunt, Stanford University&#8217;s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful &#8220;Writing Matters&#8221; series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing \u201cwriting\u2019s connection with academic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/stanford-universitys-writing-matters\/\">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":[42,43,89],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-for-educators","tag-for-students","tag-resources-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}