I set to work organizing a book project, with the idea that if I could
lay out the ideas and structure so the whole was visible at once, the
actual process of writing would resolve itself into two simpler
components: the writing down and the writing up. But the system failed
me -- or rather, I failed it. There are plenty of books that are written in
just that way, and you can tell right off; the commonplace book survives
in the academic treatise whether or not one actually numbers the
paragraphs.
-- Geoffrey Nunberg. "Noted"
Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle Review, January 7, 2013
http://chronicle.com/article/Noted/136419/