Comments on: The “So What?” Question http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/22/the-so-what-question/ write better, live better Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Herbert http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/22/the-so-what-question/#comment-504 Herbert Fri, 16 May 2008 16:42:29 +0000 http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/22/the-so-what-question/#comment-504 I too, as an aspiring writer, have been asked this question - not by professors or teachers, but actually as a piece of advice from a blog I followed. It's great to meet this advice early on, but at the same time, even though it sounds so simple, it is quite challenging. I too, as an aspiring writer, have been asked this question - not by professors or teachers, but actually as a piece of advice from a blog I followed.

It’s great to meet this advice early on, but at the same time, even though it sounds so simple, it is quite challenging.

]]> By: loren http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/22/the-so-what-question/#comment-457 loren Mon, 12 May 2008 16:16:43 +0000 http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/22/the-so-what-question/#comment-457 Hi, Eric -- I'm glad you found Writing Power. I agree with you: the "so what" question is alternately incredibly helpful and incredibly annoying. Let me know if there are any topics you'd like to see covered here, and I'll see what I can dream up. Cheers, Loren Hi, Eric —

I’m glad you found Writing Power. I agree with you: the “so what” question is alternately incredibly helpful and incredibly annoying. Let me know if there are any topics you’d like to see covered here, and I’ll see what I can dream up.

Cheers,
Loren

]]> By: Eric http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/22/the-so-what-question/#comment-456 Eric Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:25 +0000 http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/22/the-so-what-question/#comment-456 Hi, I just found your blog, and I'm really enjoying it. The so what question is huge. Early in graduate school, I turned in an OK paper, and among the comments, at the bottom, the professor wrote, "So what?" I started asking myself that about every paper I turned in. That was probably the biggest writing lesson I learned in my quarter century of schooling. But like you said, answering that question can be a bear.... Thanks, Eric Hi,

I just found your blog, and I’m really enjoying it.

The so what question is huge. Early in graduate school, I turned in an OK paper, and among the comments, at the bottom, the professor wrote, “So what?” I started asking myself that about every paper I turned in. That was probably the biggest writing lesson I learned in my quarter century of schooling.

But like you said, answering that question can be a bear….

Thanks,
Eric

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