#academic jargon

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

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This might be funny if it wasn't pipelining pure toxic excrement into the waters of our knowledge-making institutions.

It's all fake. But now it's cited and treated as legitimate when it still isn't and never was. This is a form of corruption and fraud.

[eve-was-framed]

saw some people saying that the woman who did the cass review, dr hilary cass, is just jealous because “trans women look more like a woman than she does” and to that i gotta say.. so you agree? you agree that your definition of woman is just someone who is feminine and conventionally attractive? you agree that your definition of the word woman reinforces restrictive, oppressive gender roles and stereotypes? you agree that your view of womanhood is regressive and that feminists are correct in opposing it?

[communistkenobi]

there are certain academic writing styles that are insufferable and miserable to read but hard to describe - it’s writing that uses jargon for the sake of it. like jargon is effective when you don’t have anything else on hand, it can be powerful in summarising complex ideas or processes or traditions. I even find it sometimes effective when writing in a more rhetorical/flowery register. but you really do not need to use the word “caesura” when you just mean “break” like come the fuck on dude

[antisisyphus]

i really love seing stupid discourse where the clear answer is 'both are true. simultaniously'

[aximili]

eve kosofsky sedgwick was the first academic where i was like "what she's saying is fucking genius and complex and she's saying it in largely plain and accessible language. this is incredible" and it's truly how i strive to write academically

[kellystar321]

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[streamlass]

“Real mystics don’t hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you’ve seen it it’s still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it’s a platitude.” —“The Arrow of Heaven”, GK Chesterton

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

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[ Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12844 ]

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When I say that the Humanities is rife with academic fraud, I worry that people think I'm kidding, being hyperbolic or otherwise exaggerating. On the contrary. It's not possible to undersell it.

All of this is fake. It's bogus. It's fraudulent. It does not exist.

And yet, people are being given credentials and injecting fantasy into our sense and knowledge-making processes for what is the scholarly equivalent of air guitar.

[pallas-cat]

english should be abolished and academic english should be super abolished

[tibli]

genuinely have mad respect for people who choose to study in the US healthcare field while having english as anything other than a first language. im a native speaker and the way some of this shit is written is damn near impossible to parse

[kummatty]

i don't know how to say this without sounding like im joking but one thing that makes me nervous abt grad school is big words . if there are too many then my eyes just glaze over and I can't continue

[clonerightsagenda]

Now that the plot of Academicasaurus is coming into focus the inciting incident is the characters' dean attempting to make contact with some kind of ancient eldritch power by publishing its work in a scholarly journal only to have her plot foiled over and over by the journal's editorial team going "this sucks, I'm not publishing that"

[raspberrybluejeans]

okay this assignment that has been tormenting me is basically getting 8 academic articles and saying what the articles are about which doesn't seem that hard but i dont know what the fuck these articles are about!!!! i cannot read this shit!!!!! the assignment is like what is the point of the article? what were their conclusions? and im like i wish i could fucking tell you brother!!! these bitches are speaking in tongues!!!!!!!

[st-monday]

thinking about finally releasing some of my essays into the world, would you read them?

[mantomhive]

not being able to say “or a secret third option” in my thesis <<<<<

[charlezarrd]

dear academics who write papers about media, I am begging you. Say what you are trying to say with fewer words.