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Its like musicians at a jam session: they just play and play and play, until someone plays a sequence of notes, or a musical phrase--sometimes made up on the spot-- that the rest of the band seizes upon and develops, extends into a lead line, builds chords around, maybe a bass line, and some fills. -- Me today during office hours, explaining to a student how to formulate the research question for her final paper: Just keep writing, even if you are not sure where its going, circling your topic. Some of it will end up nowhere, but if you stay at it, you will hone in on the core of what drives your interest--thats your magic phrase, thats your lead line, thats what you build your song around. Your primary & secondary sources are your band--they will help you fill in the rest. In a parallel existence, I think I am a record producer.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:20:38 +0000

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