Also, conciseness and clarity are not rewarded. That is, to gain tenure and to get published in academic journals, one is rewarded for the denseness of one’s writing, not whether it can be easily understood. “Here is my question,” David writes, “Why is academic writing so bad? Part of the answer,” he writes, “must be that the incentives make it bad. Today on the show: Why is academic writing so bad?ĭUCKWORTH: Why don’t we turn it into a Mad Libs ? All you have to do is dropdown menus and fill in the blank.Īlso: what does your perfect day look like? And what’s preventing you from having more of them?ĭUBNER: It’s sunny and 77 degrees today, going up from a high of 76 yesterday.ĭUBNER: Angela, we have a listener question from one David Boling. DUCKWORTH + DUBNER: And you’re listening to No Stupid Questions.
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