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Academic Style (1) - Coggle Diagram
Academic Style (1)
critiques
'academese'
Pinker 2014
'academic writing stinks'
'an explanation w/o eg is no better than no exp at all'
Grey & Sinclari 2006:445
to make Ac Wr 'legitimate'
laboured prose
'tendentious'
'jargon'
Kasner & Newman 1948:357
'it's easier to be clever than be clear'
Lin 1937
'simplicity' paradox
Zinsser 1989: 66/183
'jargon'
playing by rules
Rules
Never use passive when you can use active
avoid nominalization
avoid wordiness
avoid abstractions & concepts
What readers want
Read this aloud
sounds like speaking
Helen 2012 Stylish academic writing
plain English
never use a long word when a short word will do
tell a story
characters
