Writing knowledge

[magid]

Queue mentioned a writing class assignment for students to identify five things they know well, enough so that they could write an article about them.

I started thinking about that today. What do I know that well? It took a while before anything came to mind; I tend to think that there's more I don't know than I do about most topics. Eventually I came up with Judaism (though I think Cellio is a much much better writer than I am about pretty much every topic I've read her writings on, and though I know about a drop in the sea of Torah), home cooking, and children's books. Oh, yeah, high school math textbooks (as if anyone would want to know much about them; so many people run the other way when faced with them...). Somehow it seems that after all the fancy education, I should know a bit more than this.

Current Food: roasted onions, red peppers, potatoes, and sweet potatoes

Comments

[cellio]

Heh. I'm impressed that whoever had to mention standard kerning...

I had word-processing tools, and I knew how to use them. Scribe and (later) LaTex: by geeks, for geeks. :-)

To be fair, though, that was one particular professor, whose lack of specificity had been noted early on in the semester, so he and I made sort of a game of me exploiting one loophole at a time and him closing it to see what I'd do next. I had actually used the kerning trick a couple of times outside of that class, but mostly didn't need to go that far to meet length requirements.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Glad you didn't have to kern toooo much to keep in length requirements! I didn't know what kerning was until after grad school, when I started working in grad school. (And didn't even have a computer of my own to write papers on until halfway through college.)
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