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Maybe it's just me, but I absolute loathe the format and language style of "proper" papers. The column view heavy on text and weak on media feels highly outdate
by forrestthewoods 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I absolute loathe the format and language style of "proper" papers. The column view heavy on text and weak on media feels highly outdated. They come across as a wall of words that almost purposefully seem difficult to read. It can't possibly be the best way to convey complicated information. I'll take a slightly less formal, media content rich blog post every day of the week.
- Bjoern 14y agoComing from a research background I can totally understand your feeling. Once you have read enough of those papers, you start to kind of skim through them more easily. Unfortunately, quality of papers and their readability highly depend on the skill of the author. There are some papers which are easy and entertaining to read because of the writing skill and effort put into it. Many though are not nice at all. Here is an entertaining but serious one... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/cocaine.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/cocaine.pdf