> why is it that a profession so fundamentally involved in the business of writing ... pays so little attention to this aspect of its work? I came to a differe

> why is it that a profession so fundamentally involved in the business of writing ... pays so little attention to this aspect of its work? I came to a different conclusion shortly before leaving my humanities graduate program: that the bad writing was covering for an absence of valuable insight. If you don't have anything to say, say a lot of bullshit. Nothing I've seen about the field in the last 15 years has made me reconsider that position.