Document Type
Editorial
Abstract
[First paragraph]
To ask why we write is also to ask why we read. The pragmatic answer is "to find proof" -- to find proof of like-minded thinkers, to find support for our own arguments, to discover that we are not alone in our thinking, our assumptions and problems. The transcendental answer is "to educate" -- to inspire our own thinking, to see new realities, to uplift ourselves through another writer's use of language. And the middle road: "Because there is a need."
Repository Citation
Benton, Michael, Alan Clinton, Davin Heckman, Subhash Jaireth, Marc Ouellette, and Matthew Wolf-Meyer. "What We Write and Why." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 3, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1–6. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol3/iss1/1