Academic Writing Quotes

• Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

  Elliott Colla

  Writing, Differences, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Action, Academic

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Important, Three

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

  Michael Bierut

  Writing, Ideas, Design

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

  Daniel Drezner

  Writing, Quality, Academic Work

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• The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoritative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

  Michael Jackson

  Revenge, Character, Home

  "In Sierra Leone".

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• I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Thinking, Wonderful

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