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To those saying the paper isn't for the "layperson", or average reader - papers like this exist to fluff the ego of the author more than they exist to convey in
by stephengillie 8y ago
To those saying the paper isn't for the "layperson", or average reader - papers like this exist to fluff the ego of the author more than they exist to convey information. It's very possible to write in a way that is both accessible to everyone and still informative to experts.
- franciscrick1 8y agoAnything you don't understand is just designed to insult you and fluff the ego of the elitist author?
- krastanov 8y agoI find this statement very offensive. Papers like this exist to update people on the state of the art in their field (a target audience of rarely more than 100k people in the whole world). As others have mentioned already, there are great review articles, specifically meant for people just entering the field, and even they require quite a bit of dedication for a layperson to understand. Or to phrase it in a different way: how often do emails on the dev mailing lists of open source project include a detailed description of the project that would be enough to bring laypeople up-to-speed.
- stephengillie 8y agohttps://www.xkcd.com/547/ https://www.xkcd.com/547/
- krastanov 8y agoWhat point are you trying to make with the comics? Of course a textbook or a review paper should be written clearly and simply, we already said that, and it has nothing to do with the original point of writing efficient letter when talking to your colleagues (as opposed to the public).