A colleague and I were able to secure a grant to have Richard Miller, Professor and Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center at Rutgers, visit our university. He gave three lectures, during which I took a few notes. Here they are, in no particular order...
Social networks are an echo chamber of people who all think the same way--that's what it means to be a "friend."
Stop trying to learn the process and start getting the software to do what you want it to do.
Research is meditation, deliberation, speculation.
The nature of invention in its earliest state is that it's beyond language.
If you're only searching for the top Google links, you're not researching. You're not researching. You're just coming up with the most found research.
You're doing research when you start looking into something that violates your expectations. If you're only looking at something that supports your opinion, you're generating propaganda, not inquiry.
Research suspends the ease of moral judgment.
Only one person can teach you how to think, and that's you.
The power of research is to compel you to confront your own ignorance and teach yourself to think.
The danger of the Internet is that it can lull you into believing that writing is doing.
You don't have to be a passive consumer (couch surfer); you could produce pieces that create a better world.
The only way to get to profundity is through frustration, boredom, etc.
None of us as smart alone as two people together.
In the cloud.
The more stuff you find, the more good stuff you find--stuff that challenges your expectations.
10-minute idea driven visual essay.
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