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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 26 Oct 2015

    Why Is Academic Writing So Needlessly Complex? http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/complex-academic-writing/412255/ …

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      1. Monsterlander‏ @Monsterlander 26 Oct 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker "Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity."

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      2. Ari Armstrong‏ @ariarmstrong 26 Oct 2015
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        .@sapinker Linguistic "complexity" in academia often masks poor argument.

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      1. Michael Roberts‏ @MBRoberts4004 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @edujdw Cos if you write so no one can understand you must be erudite!!. Need to write simply

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      1. David Grinspoon‏Verified account @DrFunkySpoon 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker got to protect the priesthood...

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      2. Patricia Rosewell‏ @stormpetrel 30 Oct 2015
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        “@sapinker: Why Is Academic Writing So Needlessly Complex? http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/complex-academic-writing/412255/ …” .@philippajane5

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      3. Tony Hirst‏ @psychemedia 30 Oct 2015
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        @stormpetrel Shouldnlt that be s/thing like: On the Myriad Ways in Which Academic Prose is Constructed: A Preliminary Investigation

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      4. Patricia Rosewell‏ @stormpetrel 30 Oct 2015
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        @psychemedia Is it even an 'investigation'!?

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      5. Tony Hirst‏ @psychemedia 30 Oct 2015
        Replying to @stormpetrel

        @stormpetrel dunno - didnt read it;-)

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      1. TGGeko‏ @TGGEKO 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker If it was simple, the plebs might catch on and not give us another grant!

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      1. LA Grant‏ @LAGrant53 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker I'm going with the need to disguise underlying ignorance from the tenure committee.

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      1. Janek Albinsky‏ @jalbinsk 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker American Style Academic Writing (tm) is much more relaxed than German style. American may lack juice, but German is aridic.

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      1. Gillian McGarvey‏ @gmcgarv 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker And why do academics seem to fear the word "because"?

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      1. Vivian Darkbloom‏ @VivianDark78 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker Why? That I can tell you in one word...tradition!

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      1. Charles‏ @carlstromct 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker Definition of an economist: A person who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

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      1. Data Dave‏ @DaveHimrich 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker Gotta sound smart, whether you are or not.

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      1. John‏ @johnpm 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker Guild language keeps people in by keeping people out. I think that was the reason now it seems they are following a tradition.

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      1. Lilian Edwards‏ @lilianedwards 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker without reading it, cos otherwise we don’t get jobs/promotion/kudos. Ah to be in comp Sci!

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      1. Man of Culture‏ @shnrvr82 26 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker I always wondered that myself. Save the complexity for a technical report.

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