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jargon and more jargon equals inaccessible knowledge

  • Posted on April 17, 2010
  • by Cat

A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Bad Writing and Bad Thinking – Do Your Job Better” provides much-needed commentary on the quality of writing in academic scholarship. I have often argued that scholarly writing tends to be…

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a tale of inappropriate comments

  • Posted on November 7, 2009November 7, 2009
  • by Cat

In the Fall of 2006 I received an email, filtered down through the chain of departmental command, regarding my course website from the previous Spring. The email regarded a comment exchange between two students from my Technical Writing class. Now…

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