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When dissertation writing reveals intellectual confusion

I have been writing the same chapter for eight months and I cannot tell if it is perfectionism or if I genuinely do not know what I am trying to say.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You can't tell if you're just being a perfectionist or if you really don't know what you're trying to say.

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