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It seems as though academic writing manages to simultaneously use too many words and too many references. Few papers get to the point and cover the point convi
by mirntyfirty 5y ago
It seems as though academic writing manages to simultaneously use too many words and too many references. Few papers get to the point and cover the point convincingly when they do.
- moltke 5y agoI liked Adlemen's genetic computing paper. It had tons of jargon and references but was only ~ two pages long. It's a super dense two pages if you're new to molecular biology though. I think that's what most academic writers should really be aming for but they get trained by professors/TAs measuring their papers in terms of length rather than content.
- exdsq 5y agoThe rabbit hole of shortest successful PhD thesis's is pretty cool