Seriously though, why? Everything in its measure of course, but can't a book be more than just a jet-propelled argument? Isn't there *some* leeway for sharing the richness of a topic? I wonder if part of what limits academic writing is that it's *too* relentlessly thesis driven.https://twitter.com/lportwoodstacer/status/1290275131697147905 …
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This thread explains my why in part: https://twitter.com/lportwoodstacer/status/1288645063103385602?s=21 …. Of course there can be well executed exceptionshttps://twitter.com/lportwoodstacer/status/1288645063103385602 …
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Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD (she/her) @lportwoodstacerBeen thinking abt a conversation I had w/ an author the other day. He has a great project that I know publishers are going to snap up. The topic is both evergreen & timely and probably thousands of readers or more will be interested. There was one thing I felt was missing thoughShow this thread2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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For me, I find that the problem with too many academic books is that the whole argument and its implication is limned from the outset. The rest of the book is expandable: it's there if you want to check the math (as it were) but it's not essential to processing the intervention.
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So the book feels just like a token, something to satisfy a tenure committee instead of something a real person sits down and actually, y'know, *reads*.
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