# @dr.san__ on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPBm4i9DMjp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63505702-drsan-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1efc74ca3a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-25T12:29:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** San Choudhury (@dr.san__) — https://gondola.cc/dr.san__

## Caption

Shaping my messy thoughts into something more on paper, is one of my favourite things about scholarship. There is a craft to it, much like one coaxes the form of a pot or jug out of a lump of clay.

Scholarship is thought work, and the timing with which good thoughts arrive is unpredictable. The result is a proliferation of hand-written notes, each one a snapshot of my mind at work. I could not do without these notes anymore than I could do without my laptop - just because they are scattered on scraps of paper does not make them less worthy than the rough notes document on my computer.

I cannot, however, present a bundle of loose papers to a journal, or my group. #camscanner has been an important tool for transferring the connections I have drawn out on paper into the digital form required by our way of working.

You may think that writing notes or sketching arguments by hand is an inefficient way to develop your work. For me personally, it’s a part of working that I couldn’t do without.

#phd #academia #research #scholar #academicwriting #gradschool

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scholar, gradschool, research, academicwriting, phd, academia, camscanner

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