Abstract:Academic writing is about the world as we collectively know it and understand it, but it is also, inevitably, about ourselves and our own systems of knowledge. As such, it is never complete. It always needs to be revised, redefined, rewritten. A palimpsest model would be perfect to erase the original words that we no longer recognize, those sentences that do not match with our present thoughts, with our new discoveries, and with our developing perception of reality. It would be a manuscript, which means it mig… Show more
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