@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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@sapinker Linguistic "complexity" in academia often masks poor argument. - 1 more reply
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@sapinker got to protect the priesthood...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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 -
@stormpetrel Shouldnlt that be s/thing like: On the Myriad Ways in Which Academic Prose is Constructed: A Preliminary Investigation -
@psychemedia Is it even an 'investigation'!? -
@stormpetrel dunno - didnt read it;-)
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@sapinker If it was simple, the plebs might catch on and not give us another grant!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I'm going with the need to disguise underlying ignorance from the tenure committee.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker And why do academics seem to fear the word "because"?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Why? That I can tell you in one word...tradition!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Definition of an economist: A person who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Gotta sound smart, whether you are or not.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker without reading it, cos otherwise we don’t get jobs/promotion/kudos. Ah to be in comp Sci!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I always wondered that myself. Save the complexity for a technical report.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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