{"id":2286,"date":"2012-05-07T12:36:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2012-10-08T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:00:26","slug":"how-i-became-an-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/how-i-became-an-addict\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Became an Addict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A revision addict, I mean\u2014addicted to sharing my work with others and responding to theirs, addicted to creating a community of writing collaborators.<\/p>\n

\"Cydney
Cydney Alexis, Ph.D. candidate in composition and rhetoric, assistant director of the Writing Fellows program, and former Writing Center instructor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Someone once told me that my Master\u2019s thesis would be the longest all-nighter I\u2019d ever pull. He was a graduate student at the very tail end of his Ph.D.; I was wrestling with my looming thesis, and specifically with conceptualizing such a large project and organizing my ideas. And I believed and enacted the advice he gave me. As was my usual practice, I knocked my thesis out in a weekend.<\/p>\n

I had been knocking out papers several hours before they were due my whole life.\u00a0As my friend and future colleague Nicholas Purdy\u00a0commented when he peer reviewed this blog post draft, to knock out a paper implies I was going to \u201ccurb stop it to the professor; to wrestle it to the ground and give it a black eye and turn it in.\u201d He\u2019s right\u2014it\u2019s a violent way to go about talking about writing, one that implies not negotiation with ideas, but ferociously spitting them out in word-to-word combat. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Nick
Nick Purdy, former Writing Fellow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That was writing to me before Wisconsin: frantically collecting my sources eight hours before a paper was due and then pounding it out, five typed pages at a time, surrounded by candy and coffee, until the paper length was achieved and I turned the thing in, usually barely acceptably late. And since I almost always received As on my work, there wasn\u2019t a lot of inspiration or motivation to revise my practice. Often, those As were accompanied by statements such as, \u201cBased on your class contributions, I was expecting more from your final paper, but your participation all semester has earned you an A.\u201d I struggled with long texts that required patience, time, feedback, and revision. If a text was more than eight pages long, I couldn\u2019t keep the structure in my head. My thesis completion wasn\u2019t terribly different; I spent one miserable weekend hammering the thing out (another violent metaphor) and I knew that as a result, it would collect dust both on my mental shelf and the material one it still resides on in Florida.<\/p>\n

You see, at the school where I did my undergraduate and Master\u2019s work, peer review was not a common practice. Writing instruction was sparse. Along with tepid praise for my final papers, I also received a lot of warm praise for my shorter ones, which were easier for me to organize. My professors could see good ideas lurking behind confused structure in the longer drafts. A couple of very meticulous professors nitpicked grammatical errors and taught me how to write mechanically correct sentences. But no one talked about process.<\/p>\n

And my sheepish revision practices\u2014ones that were sustained by a scholastic (literary studies) environment that was not fully cognizant of how to teach revision and process\u2014were not limited solely to written work. I delivered papers at conferences without practicing them and even winged co-presentations. This carried on, in fact, when I came to the University of Wisconsin. My friend Kate Vieira and I presented together at a conference and she suggested, or rather implored, several times, that we should practice first. I dragged my heels until the very last second, when I begrudgingly performed the conference paper with her 20 minutes before we presented–and I experienced, for the first time, how the flames of anxiety chilled after running through our ideas.<\/p>\n

I reflect a lot on what happened to transform my writing process, because it is safe to say I am now a peer review and collaborative learning addict. I read my work to others many times before I deliver it, email it, or turn it in. I am dependent on many readers of my work.<\/p>\n

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\"Nicole<\/dt>\n
Nicole Kvale Eilers <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

My friend Nicole Kvale Eilers, an immigration historian, reads every draft I produce. This is significant for many reasons, including that I was her writing tutor for a couple of years in the Writing Center. Over the course of our living together and being colleagues at Wisconsin, the trust we developed as peer reviewers of each other\u2019s writing developed into dependence on exchanging ideas, despite our disciplinary difference. When she was on fellowship in Germany, I was so eager for her feedback on a presentation that we Skype peer reviewed (a practice we still carry on, since she now works in D.C.) My roommate, Megan Adams, helped me to transform the current dissertation chapter I\u2019m working on one afternoon on our porch, after I had been blocked for weeks.<\/p>\n

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\"Billie<\/dt>\n
Billie Schwartz<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

My sister, Billie Schwartz, a Ph.D. student in counseling psychology, and about a dozen others, listened to my job talk before I delivered it at on-campus interviews this past year. \u00a0One of my former students, Nick Purdy, whom I mentioned above, helped me when in a panic to structure my job talk. One minute after I verbalized to him that I still don’t work from outlines, I outlined the job talk in response to our conversation, around four main arguments. Incidentally, Nick is a former Writing Fellow and one of the most diligent, patient, and insightful peer reviewers of my work, and almost every important document travels through him before being sent into the ether, including this blog post.<\/p>\n

In my reflection on the drastic shift in my writing practice, I come back to three main ideas that illustrate how the collaborative, revision-centric climate forged by our robust and central Writing Center and its tentacular presence on campus fosters a strong writing culture at UW-Madison:<\/p>\n

1. Possible Selves<\/strong>. I\u2019ve been working with the psychological concept of possible selves in one of my dissertation chapters. In a nutshell, possible selves is a theory that addresses how people become things they wish to be and respond to past experiences and incorporate these experiences into their self-concept, as well as how self-concept drives what we think we can and do become. By working in the Writing Center, I was constantly surrounded by people and experiences that enabled me to change my self-concept from one who couldn\u2019t organize long texts and did not revise papers to someone who saw that writing is a practice<\/em>, one that involves patience and recursion. One of the graduate students I mentored in the Writing Center, a Ph.D. candidate in speech pathology named Marina Papangelou, taught me how critical really hard daily work is to one\u2019s writing practice. Each week, she obsessively printed out her work, responded to what we\u2019d talked about the week before, and came in bearing new material. She modeled for me, or gave me a glimpse of, the possible self who could finish a dissertation by working in small bits–or, rather, I saw that it is small bits that add up to a large project. Other graduate students who struggled and finished have also been a really important component of envisioning myself finishing my dissertation. Seeing friends sending out their articles enabled me to relinquish an article I\u2019d written to one of my field\u2019s journals. Watching a graduate student named Anneliese Cannon whom I worked with in the Writing Center for a year or so meticulously produce writing each week and then bring me, at the end, a fairly perfect, tour de force paper on performance ethnography reinforced the idea that I needed to work more consistently on writing. All of these anecdotes are meant to illustrate how the culture we are around supports our writing and contributes to the senses of self around writing that are possible within a culture. The Writing Center believes in transformation; my writing practice has been transformed accordingly.<\/p>\n

2. Training and practice<\/strong>. It\u2019s one thing to be told that peer review matters, or that positive feedback is important to give in order to establish trust with a person whose work you are responding to; it\u2019s another to read research on the topic, to practice that research, to teach it, and to see one\u2019s students and oneself benefiting from it. When I took the invaluable tutor training seminar that accompanies our first semester of Writing Center tutoring, I was thirsty for professional development, as I still continue to be. I eagerly learned about the value of reading one\u2019s paper out loud in the Writing Center context, though I had never read one of my own papers out loud before. And slowly, through watching the recursive thinking that writers would do when working in this revision-centric space, I began to apply what I was teaching to my own practice. In Nick Purdy\u2019s words, \u201cBeing in the Writing Center context was an essential transition into a revision-based writing process. [I] had to be immersed in a place where recursion was a normal methodology and philosophy to recast [my] writing process.\u201d (In his peer review of this post, Nick asked me to ruminate on the latter concept in order to end this paragraph; I\u2019ve included his words instead to make his contributions to this draft, and my writing, visible.)<\/p>\n

3. Collaborating with cross-disciplinary, cross-generational others<\/strong>. For years, I\u2019ve tried unsuccessfully to theorize the power of working with people in other disciplines or people of different ages. My former students, for example, students such as Nick, comprise some of the peer reviewers of my work I\u2019m most dependent on. It feels banal to say that it is powerful to work with people younger than oneself or that interactions at the boundaries of disciplines are especially energetic. But for some reason, they do hold a special charge. It might be the power that comes from working with younger students who bring new vision to their work. Or the transformative power of role reversal, such as having one\u2019s students revise one\u2019s work. When I taught English 316, the honors proseminar that new Writing Fellows take, I was so blown away by the intellectual prowess of the Fellows I was teaching that I began very quickly to see them as colleagues, colleagues who were not only engaging with the ideas about writing and peer review I was teaching them, but were then teaching them to undergraduates and faculty members across campus. They were also teaching me. But there\u2019s something more here, I think, which is that opening oneself up to unexpected collaborations of any kind, across any kind of difference, enables unknown, powerful, catalystic experiences.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t honor, here, all of the mentoring and training that has led to the revisioning of my practice. My advisor has spent countless hours reading drafts and giving me support that has enabled me to let go of my writing to others. Working with so many students who revised so conscientiously in response to my and their peers\u2019 feedback encouraged me to share my work with them in kind. Interview participants who detailed to me their struggles with writing their dissertations and then finished gave me a glimpse of myself walking across the Ph.D. finish line.<\/p>\n

This is for me, though, a blog post about the impact that UW-Madison\u2019s Writing Center has had on my writing life. The Writing Center, and each program or event or collaborative endeavor that is connected to it or grew out of it, is a place \u201cprimed for this kind of interaction to take place\u201d (once again, this is Nick speaking). Training and contact with many others of all ages, backgrounds, perspectives, and disciplinary interests creates a contact zone in and through which we all find ourselves, and our writing, in a steady process of transformation.<\/p>\n

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