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>The average American reads at a 6th or 7th grade level and research papers aren't written for them (some have argued this too is often for petty and self-servi
by whatshisface 4y ago
>The average American reads at a 6th or 7th grade level and research papers aren't written for them (some have argued this too is often for petty and self-serving reasons)
Writing research papers at a 6th grade reading level might be literally impossible.
- autoexec 4y agoWhich is perfectly fair, and just to be clear I don't think that all research should be written with the masses in mind either. I do suspect that there are things that could be done to make the language used a bit more accessible generally though, and a lot that could be done to improve the literacy of the typical American.