Feb 17, 2022 05:50 PM
Bad academic writing of the year award
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/02/1...ear-award/
Award nominee: "Disrupting and Displacing Methodologies in STEM Education: from Engineering to Tinkering with Theory for Eco-Social Justice"
EXCERPTS (Jerry Coyne): Well, it’s only February, but I have a contender for the Worst Academic Writing Award already. It’s not of Judith-Butler-level opacity, but it’s pretty convoluted, and in fact I have a hard time figuring out what the authors are trying to say.
The whole article is as badly written as the passage I quote below [...see blog entry...]. Do these people think they can write? This is the worst kind of obscurantist postmodernism in town, and Orwell would have a field day with it. What are the sweating professors trying to say?
I thought this kind of execrable and impenetrable postmodern prose went out of fashion two decades ago... (MORE - missing details)
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/02/1...ear-award/
Award nominee: "Disrupting and Displacing Methodologies in STEM Education: from Engineering to Tinkering with Theory for Eco-Social Justice"
EXCERPTS (Jerry Coyne): Well, it’s only February, but I have a contender for the Worst Academic Writing Award already. It’s not of Judith-Butler-level opacity, but it’s pretty convoluted, and in fact I have a hard time figuring out what the authors are trying to say.
The whole article is as badly written as the passage I quote below [...see blog entry...]. Do these people think they can write? This is the worst kind of obscurantist postmodernism in town, and Orwell would have a field day with it. What are the sweating professors trying to say?
I thought this kind of execrable and impenetrable postmodern prose went out of fashion two decades ago... (MORE - missing details)