{"id":220,"date":"2014-07-25T20:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/writershandbook\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=220"},"modified":"2014-07-25T20:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:57:29","slug":"chapter-1-writing-to-think-and-writing-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/chapter\/chapter-1-writing-to-think-and-writing-to-learn\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 1 Writing to Think and Writing to Learn","rendered":"Chapter 1 Writing to Think and Writing to Learn"},"content":{"raw":"&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"im_section\">\r\n<h1 class=\"im_title im_editable im_block\"><span class=\"im_title-prefix\">Chapter 1<\/span> Writing to Think and Writing to Learn<\/h1>\r\n<div class=\"im_section\" id=\"mccrimmon-ch01_s00\">\r\n<h2 class=\"im_title im_editable im_block\">Which Comes First? A Chicken-or-the-Egg Question<\/h2>\r\nYou\u2019ve probably had moments as a writing student when you\u2019ve said to yourself, \u201cI know what I think about this topic; I just can\u2019t get it down on paper.\u201d This frustration comes from the notion that writing comes <em class=\"im_emphasis\">after<\/em> thinking, that it merely represents or translates thoughts that are already fully formed in your head. But what if the act of writing helps sharpen your thinking? What if the act of putting thoughts into words changes those thoughts for the better? Are there ways to make that transformation happen consistently enough so that writing becomes not an end but a beginning, not a chore but a revelation? That\u2019s what this first chapter is about.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"im_section\">\n<h1 class=\"im_title im_editable im_block\"><span class=\"im_title-prefix\">Chapter 1<\/span> Writing to Think and Writing to Learn<\/h1>\n<div class=\"im_section\" id=\"mccrimmon-ch01_s00\">\n<h2 class=\"im_title im_editable im_block\">Which Comes First? A Chicken-or-the-Egg Question<\/h2>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably had moments as a writing student when you\u2019ve said to yourself, \u201cI know what I think about this topic; I just can\u2019t get it down on paper.\u201d This frustration comes from the notion that writing comes <em class=\"im_emphasis\">after<\/em> thinking, that it merely represents or translates thoughts that are already fully formed in your head. But what if the act of writing helps sharpen your thinking? What if the act of putting thoughts into words changes those thoughts for the better? Are there ways to make that transformation happen consistently enough so that writing becomes not an end but a beginning, not a chore but a revelation? That\u2019s what this first chapter is about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-220","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":405,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/220\/revisions\/573"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/405"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/220\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}