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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[I have placed “Revision As Epistemology” in The Marshall Review, where it belongs as a short essay. But it also belongs near the beginning of this notebook because it names something central to the practice.&#xA;&#xA;Revision of one&#39;s own writing is not simply correction after thought. It is one of the ways thought discovers what it is trying to say. That matters here.&#xA;&#xA;This notebook is not a side-channel for leftovers, nor a blog in the usual sense. It is a place for method in motion: fragments, observations, trials, tensions, and small acts of recasting before they become something more settled.&#xA;&#xA;If the finished essay gives the voice, the notebook gives some trace of the movement by which the voice finds its footing.&#xA;&#xA;Revision As Epistemology&#xA;&#xA;footer style=&#34;font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 2em; text-align: center;&#34;&#xD;&#xA;  p style=&#34;font-size: 0.9em; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0.4em;&#34;&#xD;&#xA;    Essayism as method — ad hoc notes&#xD;&#xA;  /p&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;  p style=&#34;margin: 0; white-space: nowrap;&#34;&#xD;&#xA;    © a href=&#34;https://marshall.ie&#34;David Marshall/a • a href=&#34;https://dm.ie&#34;dm.ie/a  •  a href=&#34;https://marshall.ie/attribution&#34;attribution/a&#xD;&#xA;  /p&#xD;&#xA;/footer&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have placed “<a href="https://go.marshall.ie/revision-as-epistemology-essayists-notebook"><em>Revision As Epistemology</em></a>” in The Marshall Review, where it belongs as a short essay. But it also belongs near the beginning of this notebook because it names something central to the practice.</p>

<p>Revision of one&#39;s own writing is not simply correction after thought. It is one of the ways thought discovers what it is trying to say. That matters here.</p>

<p>This notebook is not a side-channel for leftovers, nor a blog in the usual sense. It is a place for method in motion: fragments, observations, trials, tensions, and small acts of recasting before they become something more settled.</p>

<p>If the finished essay gives the voice, the notebook gives some trace of the movement by which the voice finds its footing.</p>

<p><a href="https://go.marshall.ie/revision-as-epistemology-essayists-notebook"><em>Revision As Epistemology</em></a></p>

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