Is that really the only way I know when I'm thinking academically? When I try in a particularly hard way to not use profanity or distasteful / blasphemous metaphors? There has to be more to it than that.
It's difficult because, to be honest, I don't think I know when I'm writing academically. I guess it's an external thing? When someone tells me that I'm doing academic work? Otherwise, it all sort of runs together. Like, the bit of journaling I do a few times a week informs my class writing, as does the conversation I have with a friend, the shower-thinking, the constant self-conversation, all of that.
Does that mean "fuck it. I'm always thinking academically because everything I'm doing can move toward writing academically?" Or is it more complicated than that? Is it a threshold? Because I sure don't feel like I'm thinking academically while yelling at the TV about whatever sport I currently am too invested in.
So maybe I'm not always thinking academically, but maybe it's happening more often than I'm giving myself credit for. Maybe it's anytime I'm engaged with my surroundings rather than numb to them. When I'm trying to look at every single side and dimension of a thing, or at least trying to look past that first visible surface.
But that doesn't seem right either. Because I'm looking at layers of those angry sports thoughts, thinking about how sports are really about parallel play, or something like that. Which can develop into academic writing, so it must be academic thinking?
And this feels like academic thinking/writing, even though I said "fuck" a few paragraphs back.
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