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As I continue to draft the teaching guide I have been working on with the student organizations at Oxford, a surprising challenge that has arisen is organizing the table of contents, and constantly wanting to add new sections as my conversations with students result in more perspectives. Obviously the process of revision and editing is about making important additions as well as cuts, but as a researcher, it has proven to be difficult to hold back from being as in depth as possible, especially since this project is meant to be accessible and relatively short for students to draw from in the upcoming semesters.
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Hi Kelly,
I really relate to this challenge: always hoping to produce work that is as detailed and thorough as possible but struggling to reconcile this impulse with the demands of clarity and concision. This summer I had to go through a similar process when writing public-facing blog posts that recapped some of my organization's events--and I learned how to shape my writing to the needs of my audience. It can be frustrating--even excruciating--but in most cases we must begrudgingly accept the necessity of cutting things short, even when we want them to go on and on and on and... I wish you luck in navigating the Scylla of informational impenetrability and the Charybdis of superficiality as you make your way through the rest of this incredible (and super super interesting) project on the Oxford student experience with DEI efforts.