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So last week I got a chance to stop by the ACRL 2019 Conference in Cleveland. Somehow, this was only my second ACRL Conference (my first was the one in Philadelphia in 2011). Below are some thoughts.
Recently, I listened to an episode of the In Our Time podcast about Emily Noether, a brilliant mathematician who worked with Einstein. After listening to the episode, I was interested in learning more about her. So I looked her up on Wikipedia and read an article all about her life and work.
Was Wikipedia an appropriate source for me to consult in this case?
Many of my students would tell you no.
With all due respect to those students, they are wrong.
I’m using this blog in part to talk about a project I’m working on which involves reading through popular writing advice books to find out how and whether they discuss the role of research in creative writing . Before I get to some of what I’ve found so far, I wanted to spend some time establishing where the idea that research plays a role in creative writing comes from in the first place.
Because let me tell you, it was not, as far as I can recall, in any of the creative writing workshops I took as an undergraduate. If we ever discussed research as part of the creative process in that program, I have no memory of it.
Yet I can’t help but suspect that research does play a role in creative writing.*
Let me explain where that suspicion comes from.
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I mentioned before that one of the goals of this blog is going to be to reflect on a
project to read 10 popular books on creative writing to learn what, if anything, they might have to say about the role of research in the creative process.
For a project like this, a few questions might come to mind.
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Welcome to Studying Research! My name is Allison Hosier and I’m an Information Literacy Librarian at the University at Albany, SUNY. As a researcher, I am interested in the contextual nature of research and the metaconcept that research is both an activity and a subject of study, an idea I adapted from work by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle and first wrote about in an article that was published in College & Research Libraries.
These days, my work is leading me down two separate but related research paths. The first is understanding the study of research through the lens of the research-as-subject metaconcept. The second is learning about the role of research in fiction writing.
My initial goals for the blog are as follows:
Eventually I would like for this blog to become a space for conversation on these two topics.
If so, I would love to start a conversation with you!
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy what you find here.
Studying Research 