“The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing” sings a headline in The Atlantic magazine. The article beneath the headline, by Victoria Clayton-Alexander, is profiles Ig Nobel Prize winner Danny Oppenheimer [pictured here] and others who fight muddle and murk. The article says, in part: (Oppenheimer for his part believes he got the award because of the paper’s title: “Consequences of […]
Tag: academic
How to write a technical paper (c.1956)
To complement Improbable’s archives on the subject of “How to write *“ [1] ‘How To Write A Scientific Paper’ [2] ‘How to Write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature’ [3] ‘How to Write a Scientific Paper’ (again) [4] ‘How to write a crank letter‘ [5] ‘How to write a love letter‘ Can we also now recommend ‘How […]
Profiling the IJIRS journal
Gopal Chakraborty, B.Sc (Physics Hons.), M.Sc (Physics), CWD, PHD (Pursuing), Assistant Professor of Physics, GKCEM, JIS GROUP, is the editor-in-chief of an unusual academic publication entitled : The International Journal Of Innovative Research and Studies (ISSN: 2319-9725). It’s unusual in several respects – in that it’s a monthly, multidisciplinary, international, English language journal, with zero-level […]
Philosophy? Tedious?
In his Presidential Address at the 53nd [sic] Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, professor David McNaughton, of Florida State University, US, revealed that he had been inspired by a 2007 Guardian article by Jonathan Wolff (head of philosophy at University College London) which began: “Why is academic writing so boring?” Professor McNaughton refined […]