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We may struggle with our writing at just the point where we are thinking through different ideas. Our writing can help identify that struggle – for example, that effort to characterise an approach. This develops our thinking as we try to think about the issues we are writing about more deeply. This dynamic interplay is at the heart of some of the best academic writing. The author isn’t the font of static, fixed knowledge that they passively convey as if taking down some dictation. Instead, the author is dynamically struggling with ideas and articulating them. In making ideas clear to others, they are simultaneously making them clear to themselves. This dual articulation process involves passages that run smoothly and then hit a snag, but the snag isn’t like a blockade in the road ahead; instead, it identifies an issue that can be taken deeper – an opportunity to further clarify, deepen or extend our understanding. Writing and thinking are dynamic, mutually-enhancing processes. That is what makes them creative, fun and worthwhile.