Re:The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
by voyou on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:23AM
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Yeah, the article just drops that paragraph in without explaining what's supposed to be so bad about it. Indeed, the article says almost nothing about what criteria we could use to judge if writing is needlessly complex or opaque.
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Re:The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
by alricb on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:47PM
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> Indeed, the article says almost nothing about what criteria we could use to judge if writing is needlessly complex or opaque.
And that's a huge problem for all the "clear writing" mandates; it's hard to give clear guidelines on what is and isn't clear.