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> People who are good at doing X are not always good at writing about it.
Yes, but getting good at it is one of the things we are trying to teach them.
I also believe that in both the scientific setting and the pedagogical setting, the social function of text is similar. In the pedagogical case, it's not so much that I need a deep connection to their thoughts on binary trees, but RATHER that the thing we are teaching them by having them write about binary trees if how to communicate in settings where that deep connection is important.
I am not sure about the "we did X, and Y happened" thing. I don't think there are many examples of where such a text would have any import whatsoever if it did not come from a human being with whom I have either a scientific, professional, or intellectual relationship.
Jon Sterling
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