Scholars Talk Writing: Deirdre McCloskey - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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You have to be together long enough to get over the academic pose ("Heh, I’m the expert here") and learn to listen. Love is important, and often overlooked. Love makes it possible for the writer whose work is being tested to accept criticism gracefully, since she knows it is meant in love. Men don’t grasp it, usually. They are so busy competing that they don’t realize that what actually works is cooperation. Whoops — sorry: gender candor alert.
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riveting interview with Deirdre McCloskey, economist on two points: transition from man to woman, and writing.
