This page collects ongoing intellectual projects. Each functions as a working archive intended for clarity, reuse, and gradual refinement.

Academic writing: tools, concepts, and misconceptions

Status: active

A long-term project examining how academic writing works in practice, as distinct from how it is often described in manuals or workshops.

  • Minimalist academic writing
    A framework for demystifying academic writing by separating what is genuinely difficult from what is merely made to feel mysterious.

  • Sentence mapping
    A practical approach to diagnosing sentence-level problems without turning grammar into ideology.

  • Reverse outlining
    Approaches to inspecting structure, including paragraph logic, argument flow, and topic-sentence mapping.

  • Writing as thinking
    Notes on drafting as a cognitive process rather than transcription of finished ideas.

Reading and reconstructing writing advice

Status: active

A project aimed at reconstructing influential writing advice in usable form, moving from transcription to principles.

Planned directions include comparative notes on other authors and synthesis of recurring patterns across advice traditions.

Writing process bibliography

Status: in progress

An evolving annotated bibliography of research and practitioner writing on how people actually write. Focus areas include recurring tensions in both scholarship and practice: planning versus discovery writing, revision versus drafting, and craft versus instinct.

Entries will accumulate gradually, emphasizing curated sources and interpretive notes rather than exhaustive summaries.

Research projects: proposals and outcomes

Status: active

Notes and working archives examining how research projects are proposed, funded, and then evolve in practice. These pages document the gap between proposal-stage intentions and completed work, with reflections on framing, feasibility, and revision over time.

  • SSHRC doctoral proposal retrospective
    An annotated reflection on a successful SSHRC doctoral funding proposal, including how the project was framed, what likely worked, how the dissertation evolved in practice, and what I would change now.

Ephemera and formative projects

Some projects matter less for polish than for the conditions they created. This section gathers material from earlier periods that shaped how I think about writing, collaboration, and cultural work, even when the outputs themselves were informal or experimental.

These items are not presented as professional credentials. They function more as a cabinet of curiosities: traces of intellectual and creative activity that continue to inform my work.