When the purveyors themselves (apparently) confess that their writing is deliberately obscure then one has to wonder a little about their intellectual integrity. Or is that just a vulgar anglo-saxon caricature demonstrating my lack of appreciation of obscurantism as a legitimate academic lifestyle choice? Well, whatever, I'm with Searle on this one.
Is academic writing getting harder to read?
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To track academic writing over time, The Economist analysed 347,000 PhD
abstracts published between 1812 and 2023. The dataset was produced by the
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