So there's that tweet floating around about bad academic writing in literature. I have thoughts. First: the text in question, I can almost guarantee, has never been assigned to an undergraduate. No one gets to lit-101 and opens up their book to that. 1/8
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So is this good academic writing? Probably not. I think this argument could be rendered into passably normal English without serious loss of meaning. Some of the jargon here (and in the book description also cited) is meaningful, but some of it is, pardon me, performative. 6/8
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But poor writing (or performative obscurantism) is hardly unique to 1) academia or 2) the humanities. I have read economics, physics and political science papers where I understood the underlying theory which were nevertheless about as difficult to read as this. 7/8
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But the main point of the tweet, the 'won't someone think of the students!' bit, is foolish and willfully dense. No one is assigning a book like this to undergrads, you read stuff like this in graduate school, when you are prepared for it. end/8pic.twitter.com/zXAx54zWwS
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