Verbosity in literature is valuable and seductive. Verbiage in science frequently conceals meaning, it is often used to overly boost relevance, and it denotes affectation and a pompous disposition. Please avoid it!
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But for some reason some of us stay at the calibration: a journal article that is hard to read is hard because I have a gap. That's very unlikely when we're talking about your own field and even related fields if you are anything above 1st/2nd year PhD student.
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What is likely — very likely in fact! — is that some of our peers (including ourselves of course!) might not be very good at explaining complex concepts. Reading and understanding is easy when the writer has done a good job.
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Yes, agree but why people praise incomprehensible writing then? As a way to compensate for their own insecurity perhaps?
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Well, if they make the jump from "I can't understand this" to "Therefore... it must be good" then it's of course the case they will praise something they deem good/outside their reach.
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But my point is why do they make this jump?
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Why does anybody praise anything, I guess? To show others they have good taste? Who knows.
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Well, that's to harsh! People praise other people for many other reasons some of them sincere Olivia! ;)
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Crossed wires. I wasn't saying praise is bad — merely that I do not know why they do it.
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