{"id":14482,"date":"2025-06-06T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=14482"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:59:44","slug":"writing-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/14482","title":{"rendered":"Writing Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having spent last weekend in in my hometown for the Canadian Economics Association\/Canadian Agricultural Economics Society annual meetings, I was asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connolly.uqam.ca\/index_en.html\">a classmate from way back<\/a> to give a short talk about writing in economics (especially for people for whom English is a second language) to the participants of a writing retreat for economics graduate students across all four of Montreal&#8217;s universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WritingMatters.pdf\">Here<\/a> are the slides of that short talk, in which I tried to go beyond what I had already said in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262543552\/doing-economics\/\">Doing Economics<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-940x530.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-940x530.png 940w, https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-580x327.png 580w, https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png 1362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent last weekend in in my hometown for the Canadian Economics Association\/Canadian Agricultural Economics Society annual meetings, I was asked by a classmate from&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/14482\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Matters<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-3LA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14485,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14482\/revisions\/14485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}