Academic

Amen.

By Eric Muller

Ann Althouse:

I lost my patience with unnecessarily complicated writing a long time ago. Life is too short to give parts of it away to careerists who are bolstering their résumés and reputations with scholarly writing that takes extra time to read because, as you go along, you have to undo the obfuscation that the writer seems to have generated to give the appearance of depth to ideas that could be stated simply and crisply.

Or to create the illusion of an idea.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on December 01, 2009 (boomark / email).