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Steven Pinker Tag

01 Oct

Posted at 15:52h in I Like This, Language, Philosophy

“Why Academics Stink at Writing,” an essay by Harvard professor Steven Pinker in the Chronicle of Higher Education (September 26, 2014). I found this essay both extremely helpful and extremely annoying. Pinker’s examples are terrific. His explanations for why academics write so badly are really fun to read, kind of like...