Oh and I see I'm at least the third person to mention this. Thanks to the others--I appreciate it. And it makes me sad, Robyn, that you're making money off of my idea without crediting me. You should maybe think about giving some of the money to a charity.
Source: The Elements of Academic Style by Eric Hayot. My problem with the Uneven U is that often we have limits on the length of papers we are required to submit. So if I'm to fully ascribe to this rule when I'm writing, I'll definitely exceed the allowed word-limit.
The Uneven U a fractal pattern of development. It works at the level of the paragraph, section, chapter, unit, and book. So it works for any type of argument-driven writing assignment.
@@WriterScience At this point, I like it more as a reading technique for journals and articles 😅 But it's a good idea to reread your final draft with the Uneven U in mind.
Robin I found you a few years ago. I finished my GED in the beginning of the year after finally shifting my focus back towards my education I’m nos finished and now in college. I am studying philosophy and cinema. Im having a wonderful time so far I wanted to thank you for spiking my interest in philosophy and in general just providing such great content.
So inspiring Robin. I also teach on Skillshare as "Self Clarity Academy" and besides paychology I make writing & creativity classes, so I hope one day maybe we will collaborate 🙂 By the way - few days ago I won big competition for the best book for young people 😊🎉 Before that some writers tried to put me down, saying negative thing about my writing, they wasn't able to notice my tallent, and I became susspicious like " Ok maybe I don't write well". BUT THEN OMG The most famous writing critiques in my country and professors of lirerature announced I won the competition. So people please don't let other people let you down, don't quit, you will find your voice and who know how much success you will have. And keep following such inspirational poeple as Robin is ❤
Thank you Robin for your videos, you are inspiration! Although I find humanities a pretty interesting field, I also believe that it can be very chaotic to find a way to navigate through them. Professors usually do not pay that much attention on teaching how to read and write academic papers, as if these skills are somehow self explanatory. I have experienced stress and confusion during my studies but returning back to your videos for advices, gives me always boost and confidence. Thanks again!
This is something I have suffered from since childhood and it doesn’t matter what l am trying to write, as as soon as I start to write I freeze up and the words fail to come out on the page or screen.
Try dictating your thoughts into a recording app. which transcribes. Some of those apps do need to be trained, depending on the user's accent, but those are the best ones. Or you could just record your thoughts and then pay someone listen to your recordings to transcribe what you dictated.
Some processes like Antilogic or Maieutics may work too. You can try writing basic words and your general idea from where you want to start and end, then ask ChatGPT or other tool to complete the writing for you. The result will be garbage, but it will help you remember by using a different perspective to contrast with your own, so your brain will know something is wrong and needs to be fixed.
Great video. Will truly use this in my writing from now on. You mention we should read great works of nonfiction and I (and others) would love to. Would you share some suggestions? I’ll appreciate it.
It almost feels like a law when you put it that way. What you've talked about here reminds me of the golden ratio, and overall, gives me a sense of natural mimicry. To give writing a sense of natural structure. The sunrise, noon, and sunset, all come with a similar distribution of light - not a lot; gradually climaxing; and then falling again (with some darkness to cut the days, and itself is "paragraphical") - which probably does serve well in communicating. You could begin to anticipate that almost rhythmically, and because you let it become a rhythm, it's easier to think while reading instead of just focusing on the text itself. That's pretty clever.
Nowadays I have a feeling that authors of the essays has unified their writing style. While reading such essays, I was always curious, if it is necessary to use this kind of academic style. When I use to read some authors from the early 20th I came to the conlusion that we can use (in the same time) interesting, flourish language and express some revealing ideas. What do you think about it? Do you consider it as some kind of crisis of todays' writing or maybe something different?
I may be stupid but it would be nice to see one of that examples you talked about. The shown quotes arent specific enough for me. I get the concept and it sounds great but i really like full length examples. I know the video cant be that long. Could you recommend some work where this method is used? Idc about the topic i only want to see the method in a longer text. (Great video btw! I love input like this!)
We live in a world of information and not knowledge Certain People no longer know the difference between knowledge and information ! I love critical thinking and when I see posts on any social media (it depends on the theme), I give my critical thinking ! Except for certain people who do not know what critical thinking is : they think you are against them or they think you are angry ! I don’t agree with a world where we all have to think the same thing without having a critical thought.... instead of staying in the logic of the argument, they use EMOTION 🙄🙄 Mostly, we live in a world of misinformation that people can be manipulated easily and just say " Yes or Amen or I don’t know what" on wherever they saw . . . NO, THANK YOU !
Do you have any info on how this structure would benefit a fictional work? I know it's centered on non-fiction but, I was wondering if it would work on my non-fictional projects too
I think with fiction you’ll have a lot more liberty over the paragraph breaks & logical flow but it’s tricky. With non fiction the only goal is to get a message across to the reader but with fiction you’re dealing with a lot more than just facts. Try it out and let me know how it goes. :)
Always find non-fiction that does this well to be utterly captivating, an author who teases new info with the beginning of each new paragraph can keep me reading all day
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I’ve taken multiple writing courses, and this is revolutionary to me. Robin, you are simply the coolest.
You’re so welcome Caleb. :) So glad that I can offer something different.
@@RCWaldun Maybe you should mention, though, that you got the entire idea from Eric Hayot's book The Elements of Academic Style?
(just to be clear--that's me. I wrote the book.)
Oh and I see I'm at least the third person to mention this. Thanks to the others--I appreciate it. And it makes me sad, Robyn, that you're making money off of my idea without crediting me. You should maybe think about giving some of the money to a charity.
Source: The Elements of Academic Style by Eric Hayot.
My problem with the Uneven U is that often we have limits on the length of papers we are required to submit. So if I'm to fully ascribe to this rule when I'm writing, I'll definitely exceed the allowed word-limit.
The Uneven U a fractal pattern of development. It works at the level of the paragraph, section, chapter, unit, and book. So it works for any type of argument-driven writing assignment.
Thank you my man
@@WriterScience At this point, I like it more as a reading technique for journals and articles 😅
But it's a good idea to reread your final draft with the Uneven U in mind.
I have to submit an article by the end of the month. I am going to try this out!
Eric Hayot talks about this in The Elements of Academic Style.
That’s where I got it from. :)
@@RCWaldun Eric Hayot's book is great. Don't you think you should have mentioned that you got the idea from him?
Robin I found you a few years ago.
I finished my GED in the beginning of the year after finally shifting my focus back towards my education I’m nos finished and now in college. I am studying philosophy and cinema. Im having a wonderful time so far
I wanted to thank you for spiking my interest in philosophy and in general just providing such great content.
The pleasure is all mine! Super happy to see people pursuing what they love out of interest not out of obligations. :) Best of luck for your studies.
So inspiring Robin. I also teach on Skillshare as "Self Clarity Academy" and besides paychology I make writing & creativity classes, so I hope one day maybe we will collaborate 🙂 By the way - few days ago I won big competition for the best book for young people 😊🎉 Before that some writers tried to put me down, saying negative thing about my writing, they wasn't able to notice my tallent, and I became susspicious like " Ok maybe I don't write well". BUT THEN OMG The most famous writing critiques in my country and professors of lirerature announced I won the competition. So people please don't let other people let you down, don't quit, you will find your voice and who know how much success you will have. And keep following such inspirational poeple as Robin is ❤
Thank you Robin for your videos, you are inspiration! Although I find humanities a pretty interesting field, I also believe that it can be very chaotic to find a way to navigate through them. Professors usually do not pay that much attention on teaching how to read and write academic papers, as if these skills are somehow self explanatory. I have experienced stress and confusion during my studies but returning back to your videos for advices, gives me always boost and confidence. Thanks again!
This is something I have suffered from since childhood and it doesn’t matter what l am trying to write, as as soon as I start to write I freeze up and the words fail to come out on the page or screen.
Try dictating your thoughts into a recording app. which transcribes. Some of those apps do need to be trained, depending on the user's accent, but those are the best ones. Or you could just record your thoughts and then pay someone listen to your recordings to transcribe what you dictated.
Some processes like Antilogic or Maieutics may work too. You can try writing basic words and your general idea from where you want to start and end, then ask ChatGPT or other tool to complete the writing for you. The result will be garbage, but it will help you remember by using a different perspective to contrast with your own, so your brain will know something is wrong and needs to be fixed.
You lack discipline and will
Thank you Robin. So glad I found your channel!
Great video. Will truly use this in my writing from now on.
You mention we should read great works of nonfiction and I (and others) would love to. Would you share some suggestions? I’ll appreciate it.
Sir, whats the name of the study you have taken that uneven "u" graohic from?
Thank you!
Thanks Robin
It almost feels like a law when you put it that way. What you've talked about here reminds me of the golden ratio, and overall, gives me a sense of natural mimicry. To give writing a sense of natural structure. The sunrise, noon, and sunset, all come with a similar distribution of light - not a lot; gradually climaxing; and then falling again (with some darkness to cut the days, and itself is "paragraphical") - which probably does serve well in communicating. You could begin to anticipate that almost rhythmically, and because you let it become a rhythm, it's easier to think while reading instead of just focusing on the text itself. That's pretty clever.
Nowadays I have a feeling that authors of the essays has unified their writing style. While reading such essays, I was always curious, if it is necessary to use this kind of academic style. When I use to read some authors from the early 20th I came to the conlusion that we can use (in the same time) interesting, flourish language and express some revealing ideas. What do you think about it? Do you consider it as some kind of crisis of todays' writing or maybe something different?
I may be stupid but it would be nice to see one of that examples you talked about. The shown quotes arent specific enough for me. I get the concept and it sounds great but i really like full length examples.
I know the video cant be that long. Could you recommend some work where this method is used? Idc about the topic i only want to see the method in a longer text.
(Great video btw! I love input like this!)
Eric Hayot’s Elements of Academic Style has an entire chapter on the uneven U and he covered it in more depth than I could in this short video.
@@RCWaldun Thank you very much! I will look into that.
when i was doing my history subjects at unimelb last year i normally just wrote paragraphs in a monster fueled haze
We live in a world of information and not knowledge
Certain People no longer know the difference between knowledge and information !
I love critical thinking and when I see posts on any social media (it depends on the theme), I give my critical thinking ! Except for certain people who do not know what critical thinking is : they think you are against them or they think you are angry ! I don’t agree with a world where we all have to think the same thing without having a critical thought.... instead of staying in the logic of the argument, they use EMOTION 🙄🙄
Mostly, we live in a world of misinformation that people can be manipulated easily and just say " Yes or Amen or I don’t know what" on wherever they saw . . . NO, THANK YOU !
Do you have any info on how this structure would benefit a fictional work? I know it's centered on non-fiction but, I was wondering if it would work on my non-fictional projects too
I think with fiction you’ll have a lot more liberty over the paragraph breaks & logical flow but it’s tricky. With non fiction the only goal is to get a message across to the reader but with fiction you’re dealing with a lot more than just facts. Try it out and let me know how it goes. :)
@RCWaldun got it. Thanks for this, man. It really helped me organize some of my writing
It seems to go back to: tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them.
Always find non-fiction that does this well to be utterly captivating, an author who teases new info with the beginning of each new paragraph can keep me reading all day
Lmao you are in no position to be telling people how to write after L’academie or Learned Disguise