Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, "Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Speaking to Your Problem Collaborative
In the second half of the book, we make this distinction between speaking to your field and speaking to your problem collective. If you just jargon all day and use all of this coded language, then only two of the 30 people in the room understand you're not going to get that job. So pragmatically there is a real good reason to train oneself to either kind of double click on those, those terms and unpack them so never say CCP or saying Chinese Communist Party or catch yourself and then rephrase. But it's also a more generous orientation, generally as a scholar. By far the best talks I've ever seen in my life are ones in which the person like threads the needle between
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