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Journal Article
Editorial
2015
Overview
The headline 'Students shouldn't pay to study gobbledegook' (The Times, 5 March 2015) is likely to have everyone interested in education nodding in agreement at once: 'gobbledegook' is a wonderful word that describes language that is meaningless or unintelligible, especially when it is too technical or pompous, and surely no sensible person would want to subject students to this. [...]the author of the article does insist that academic writing is widely made deliberately hard to understand, and, still worse, that students are actively encouraged by their teachers to write unclearly too, and we might begin to ask whether its author really knows much about education when they claim this. The author of the Times piece cites an unnamed 'social science professor' as complaining that nowadays '[a]ccessible writing is sneered at as unsophisticated', linking deliberately inaccessible writing with a need to gain success in professional promotion and in the obtaining of research funding.
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Cambridge University Press
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