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Getting out of your own way

On advice for writers

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Leslie Kern
Apr 03, 2023
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Young black woman in a denim shirt sitting on a bench outdoors, writing in a notebook.
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I wasn’t really aware of the world of writing advice until I started my PhD in the early 2000s. I’d always been a “good” writer, and while I had some teachers who pushed me to improve, I mostly slid on by with positive feedback and very little in the way of direct guidance. That is, until I met my PhD supervisor. She w…

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