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To: SirRealist who wrote (16723)1/18/2002 4:55:08 AM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
yeah, well, writing English is pretty much a hanging offense in the academy today, unfortunately. means you're considered a lightweight. But here's a piece of hers from Dissent that's written for a more general audience...

princeton.edu

tb@andofftobed.com



To: SirRealist who wrote (16723)1/18/2002 10:15:40 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
However... It's an unfortunate pre-requisite of academe to use lofty obscure words that doom her work to a very narrow readership.

Kevin,

I don't know what you've been reading lately but, compared with most academic prose these days--take literary theory as an illustration or my discipline, sociology, her book and the proposal for the next one, are written in very clear prose, even elegant at times.

John


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