I think the thing that has made me a better scholar is learning how to write for a non-academic audience. I fully credit Substack for a good bit of that process.
We were talking this week and faculty meeting about having a regular assignment be communicating the same set of ideas in both an academic paper and a podcast. One of the persistent problems that seminarians have is being able to translate what they do from good research in course work to regular person speak.
I think the thing that has made me a better scholar is learning how to write for a non-academic audience. I fully credit Substack for a good bit of that process.
I don’t know why this specific advice isn’t more common!
We were talking this week and faculty meeting about having a regular assignment be communicating the same set of ideas in both an academic paper and a podcast. One of the persistent problems that seminarians have is being able to translate what they do from good research in course work to regular person speak.