The Pruning Hook and the Spear: Why Clear Writing Matters
Occasionally, academics need a good lampooning. Perhaps often. That was the idea behind Philosophy and Literature’s “Bad Writing Contest,” a humorous review aimed to celebrate “the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles.” Every year from 1995 to 1998, the editors of the journal would select a handful of the most complex […]
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