Avtonoms
29 Aprīlis 2012 @ 18:28
Academic writing  
"Yet Professor Sword did find writers in every discipline who were effective in engaging their readers. Comparing the openings of two articles on evolutionary biology, she comments: "Amazingly, the authors of the first make the study of ant communities sound fascinating, while the author of the second succeeds in rendering penis size one of the most boring topics on earth.""

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Upd. par Fuko. "Michel Foucault, when he was visiting at Berkeley, was asked by John Searle how he could think and argue so clearly but write so badly. He answered, without irony, that no one would take him seriously otherwise." R. Solomon. The Joy of Philosophy. - p. 263.