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Think about the standpoint from which you would speak. I suggest you NOT try to write from the standpoint of someone who understands the subject and wants to ex
by fernly 8y ago
Think about the standpoint from which you would speak. I suggest you NOT try to write from the standpoint of someone who understands the subject and wants to explain some point clearly and accurately.
Because, one, you aren't an expert yet, and you would feel a lot of responsibility to try to make sure you always got it right. That would impede your writing, make it more laborious, and greatly increase your chagrin when you (inevitably) get something wrong.
And two, "what I know about Control systems" is frankly not that interesting a topic.
What IS (or at least could be) an interesting theme is "my adventures and fuckups trying to learn Control systems". You take the standpoint of a learner, a way-farer, and you write about what goes wrong, and occasionally, your triumph when things go right.
This adds a human, emotional component. You'd be writing about your (intellectual) struggles and achievements, and that's always interesting -- as well as easy to write about.
You can get as technical as you want, in this role as struggling apprentice, dive really deep when you actually make a discovery. "Wow! I just actually got this concept for the first time!" That makes a great blog post. But so does, "Today I screwed up a whole lab experiment because..."
Human interest, with a technical slant.
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- iforgotpassword 8y ago> What IS (or at least could be) an interesting theme is "my adventures and fuckups trying to learn Control systems". You take the standpoint of a learner, a way-farer, and you write about what goes wrong, and occasionally, your triumph when things go right. This. I'm long out of college and after thinking about starting a small blog for years I finally started one on github pages. Not to post super sophisticated articles showing how cool I am, but posts about weird problems or pitfalls that couldn't be solved through some googling. I try to describe the problem and failed approaches too, so should anyone ever have the same problem I hope I dropped enough keywords to help them find it.
- TrueSelfDao 8y agoI'd like to second this suggestion. You will find, or have likely already found, that a lot of the writing you do (class assignments, papers, thesis, etc) will focus primarily on the successes and be written in that expert POV. Documenting the journey is useful for your own records and is a great service if made publicly available. It's also an opportunity to reflect not just the technical topic at hand, but on your personal experience with it.