{"id":5580,"date":"2009-03-17T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/5580\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:09:17","slug":"5580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/5580\/","title":{"rendered":"Critiquing, Defending Academic BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/03\/17\/bs\"> Critiquing, Defending Academic BS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; A much discussed essay in the journal College Composition and Communication last year was titled \u201cA Kind Word for Bullshit: The Problem of Academic Writing.\u201d In the essay, Philip Eubanks and John D. Schaeffer &#8212; both on the English faculty at Northern Illinois University &#8212; acknowledge that much writing by professors, especially in the humanities, is seen as bull by many others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many non-academics, academic writing is not just bullshit but bullshit of the worst kind,\u201d they write. \u201cWhen non-academics call academic writing bullshit, they mean that it uses jargon, words whose meanings are so abstract and vague as to seem unrelated to anyone\u2019s experience. Such jargon seems to contribute nothing to the reader except confusion and serves only to enhance the ethos of the speaker, a strategy that the general public dislikes precisely because they suspect that academics are taken in by it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Critiquing, Defending Academic BS SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; A much discussed essay in the journal College Composition and Communication last year was titled \u201cA Kind Word for Bullshit: The Problem of Academic Writing.\u201d In the essay, Philip Eubanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/5580\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[2967,2968,1230],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-bullshit","tag-jargon","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}