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Jul 16, 2020 · This essay will take the example of a small suitcase, which I received after the death of my father, to examine the role of everyday objects in life writing and how things re-present us to ourselves. Using thing theory and insights from material culture studies, my essay will both unfold a personal narrative and explore a series of questions ...
- Rachel Robertson
- 2020
Mar 1, 2021 · While Life Writing also publishes ‘articles’, which are then distinct to ‘essays’, it is clear that these forms are in fact entwined modes for publishing scholarly research and analysis. Essays contribute to disciplinary knowledge and literacy in important and creative ways, and the flourishing state of examples in this genre shows that ...
- Kylie Cardell
- 2021
- Writing Makes You Happier
- Writing Can Lead to Better Thinking + Communicating
- Is Writing An Outlet For Handling Hard Times?
- Writing Can Keep You Sharp with Age
- Writing May Lead to Increased Gratitude
- Writing Closes Out Your “Mental Tabs”
- Writing Leads to Better Learning
- Writing Is Leadership at Scale
- What Will You Write Today?
It seems much of the literature on the benefits of writing deals with “expressive writing,” or putting what you think and feel to paper (or, let’s be honest, to the keyboard). For instance, one form of expressive writing might be thinking about and writing out your goals in life—an activity that research has shown is beneficial for motivation. Even...
Laziness with words creates difficulty in describing feelings, sharing experiences, and communicating with others — especially true when it comes to persuasive messages. Constantly having that “tip of the tongue” feeling, or being able to flesh out thoughts in your mind only to have them come stumbling out when you speak is very frustrating. It pai...
The connection with expressive writing and traumaticevents is quite complex. On one hand, I’ve seen a study or two that shows especially stoic people tend not to receive many benefits when they write about their troubling times. On the otherhand, there are some pretty amazing studies that conclusively show writing about trauma is a powerful way to ...
Writing is a thinking exercise, and like physical exercise, it can help keep you “in shape” as you age. While the only research that I’ve seen discussed mentions hand writtenideas as a good cognitive exercise, I don’t think the leap to typing is all that far. Just like how friendships help keep you happy and healthythrough their ties to social inte...
Counting your blessings is an activity that is proven to enhance one’s outlook on life. As the authors noted in this study, subjects who reflected on the good things in their life once a week (by writing them down) were more positive and motivated about their current situation and their future. The thing was, when they wrote about them every day, t...
Have you ever had too many Internet tabs open at once? It is a madhouse of distraction. Sometimes I feel like my brainhas too many tabs open at once. This is often the result of trying to mentally juggle too many thoughts at the same time. Writing allows abstract information to cross over into the tangible world. It frees up mental bandwidth, and w...
Information often better stays with us when learn as though we need to teach. This concept of having a “writer’s ear” never fully clicked with me until I started writing regularly. There’s a certain discipline required to create interesting written work that demands the individual be receptive and focused on finding new sources of information, insp...
Despite the fact that the world is now being suffocated by ‘new media,’ there are obviously a lot of interesting opportunities that an “anyone can publish” world brings about. We’re doomed… The ability to leave an impact at scale through your words alone is a pretty amazing concept. The emails I’ve personally received, both for my personal work and...
This was just a small sampling of the research on writing, but I hope it was interesting. It is a habit that I hope researchers will explore much further. Whether it is recording a small moment of insight in a journal, or sitting down to spill yourself onto the page… I’d love to hear about what you plan to write today. *** Gregory Ciotti writes at ...
As this collection demonstrates, Life Writing essays cover a diverse field of topics and present scholars in various degrees of self-reflexivity and self-consciousness, exploring various issues from both personal and disciplinary perspectives, harnessing the essay’s ability to tell a story at the same time as to make a larger argument or point.
- Kylie Cardell
- 2021
Life-writing has to do with the emotions, it has to do with memory, and it has to do with a sense of identity. Life-writing is vital form of cultural communication. Writers and researchers are increasingly recognising how much of writing is life-writing, including poetry and fiction.
Do the moves you make between personal story and research and analysis make sense, or is the fabric of your essay likely to unravel? Is the resulting pattern appropriate to your project? Are you working in large blocks of color, like Callie and Melynda, or the subtler tweed of Ethelin’s essay?
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Writing an essay about a personal experience or relationship can be a powerful way of both discovering the meaning of your own past and sharing that past with others. When you write about something in your past, you have two perspectives: Your perspective in the present.
