03-31-2005, 04:46 PM
Sometimes inability to start writing stems from not understanding the objective clearly.
Are you required to read Elizabeth Eisenstein's "Printing Press as an Agent of Change" (1997) and Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean Martin's "Coming of the book"? If so have you done this aleady?
Sit down and try to summarize the view point from each book into a paragraph. Nothing formal, just put down your impressions. Now look for similarities or contradictions in the two author's view points into the impact of the printing press in one area. Once you have that you have your objective. You don't necessarily have to start at the beginning (as Jeunemaitre suggested). You just have to start. Organizing your thoughts once you written a few pages is much easier.
As the other lurkers have mentioned, writing has a lot to do with inertia, once you get going it'll be hard to stop.
Good luck.
Are you required to read Elizabeth Eisenstein's "Printing Press as an Agent of Change" (1997) and Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean Martin's "Coming of the book"? If so have you done this aleady?
Sit down and try to summarize the view point from each book into a paragraph. Nothing formal, just put down your impressions. Now look for similarities or contradictions in the two author's view points into the impact of the printing press in one area. Once you have that you have your objective. You don't necessarily have to start at the beginning (as Jeunemaitre suggested). You just have to start. Organizing your thoughts once you written a few pages is much easier.
As the other lurkers have mentioned, writing has a lot to do with inertia, once you get going it'll be hard to stop.
Good luck.
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