#APaperADay: Why and How Academics Write.

…non-academics regard writing as bullshit when it is abstract and vague and full of jargon. Here, academics are accused of hiding behind prose which is dense, exaggerated, obfuscating, overblown, and full of deepities as our frequent claims to profundity have been termed. We could write more clearly and simply but we use our academic bullshit […]