Dibya Adhikari
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I am Dibya Darpan Adhikari enrolled as a graduate PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition.
I am greatly influenced by works that advocate for using one’s cultural identity to express oneself, this means not always sticking to standard English. My experiences studying post-colonial writers in the context of world Englishes greatly influences the way I produce my work. I enjoy technical writing, especially writing the how-to’s is really interesting to me. I like working with writing that has references to the students’ lived experiences and how the student connects those experiences with what is being asked of them to write.
Lived experiences to be specific when transitioning from writing for the teacher to writing for the wider audiences is something that greatly made me realize what writing style is. “Do not assume that your audience knows everything” this is an advice that has worked wonders for me in more ways than one. There are times when I struggle to put words to paper but analyzing my targeted audience and research into what it is that they need to know has helped me frame my writing.
Reading a lot of research articles, trying to make sense of things that I do not understand has helped me be who I am today. I think the realization that English is not my first language has influenced the writing that I produce. My advice for budding writers is to focus on yourself, try to figure out what you want to convey through your writing, then figure out other writers who think the same way you do. What have they done in your interest area; do you see anything that resonates with
you? Or do you see something that you think needs further work? Focus on the part that you think needs further work. I hope this advice helps.
Advice I would give myself is, listen young man you need to focus more on your ideas and the context rather than on the mechanics of good writing. It is not about what writing is but about what writing does that matters.