So do you know how people have an Acknowledgments section in academic books? Where they thank those who talked to them, and argued, and objected, and pointed out inconsistencies in their argument? Because intellectual product is not a monologue. It’s usually a result of a conversation with many different people.
I don’t have anybody to put in my Acknowledgments because I didn’t discuss this research with anybody. It wasn’t like I was about to pin down a nurse at the hospital or an Uber driver and bug them with fluidity and the collapse of the nation-state.
The only people I talked to about this are my blog readers. The blog readers were the ones who helped me figure out what I wanted to say, kept on me until my arguments made sense, pointed out every inconsistency and weakness. It looks like I was stuck at home alone writing this book, but that’s not true. I had a whole bunch of people helping me at all times.
Thank you, my friends! This is our shared achievement. I’m totally putting this in the Acknowledgments section.
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I’d also like to acknowledge you and the blog readers (and a couple of other message boards) for honing my argumentation skills. Seriously, arguing on the internet has helped me a ton!
The funniest validation of my skills was when my mother refused to discuss something with me and my brother about something because ‘you brothers are so convincing’. She was afraid we’d change her mind, or make her see how wrong her thinking was (thus making her feel bad), and she wanted none of those things to happen, haha.
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One of the manuscript’s readers says the book can be of interest to a wider audience. Little does s/he know that it has already been tested on a wider audience. :-))
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When will our royalty checks arrive?
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This isn’t the kind of book that will make money but hey, one day I might become a Bauman-like author and make money with these books. 😃
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