Penn Professors on Writing in Political Science
Dr. Anne Norton
About the Professor
Dr. Anne Norton is a professor of Political Science. Her areas of interest are identity and history, tradition and revolution, gender and race, and colonialism and post colonialism. Professor Norton received her B.A. in 1977 and Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Chicago.
Important Elements in Writing
"People have radically different ideas about argument, evidence, and aesthetics. They disagree vehemently about both what an article should say and how the article should say it."
Personal Writing Process
"It has taken me as long as ten years and as little as five months to write books of roughly the same length," notes Dr. Norton. "If I am interpreting a text I use exegetical, hermeneutic and deconstructive methods. If I am doing historical work I need to explain what I found in the archives. If I am talking about visual things, such as architecture, ads or photos, I have to think about camera angles and technology as well."
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