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Academic style

Academic writing often features prose register that is conventionally characterized by "evidence...that the writer(s) have been persistent, open-minded and disciplined in the study"; that prioritizes "reason over emotion or sensual perception"; and that imagines a reader who is "coolly rational, reading for information, and intending to formulate a reasoned response."

Three linguistic patterns that correspond to these goals across fields and genres, include the following:

1. a balance of caution and certainty, or a balance of hedging and boosting;
2. explicit cohesion through a range of cohesive ties and moves; and
3. compression, or dense noun phrases to add detail rather than more dependent clauses.
4. Use of indexicality in the strategies for standard written English.

Criticism

Main article: Academese

Academic style, particularly in humanities, has often been criticized for being too full of jargon and hard to understand by the general public. In 2022, Joelle Renstrom argued that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on academic writing and that many scientific articles now "contain more jargon than ever, which encourages misinterpretation, political spin, and a declining public trust in the scientific process."

( I am looking for a non-biased article)

There is a need for literary and philosophical gurus to bring philosophy and everyday life to come together.

In reflecting the criticism for academic writing, one can prescribe the variety of claims within academic discourse communities in that writing scholarly often challenges the writer's critical thinking within and across disciplines.

CHATGPT

Academic writing has a platform, ChatGPT,for changing the way writers compose, thus interjecting questionable reliance on critical thinking technology.

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the combining of past writings into original, new pieces of text. According to Julia Kristeva, all texts are part of a larger network of intertextuality, meaning they are connected to prior texts through various links, such as allusions, repetitions, and direct quotations, whether they are acknowledged or not. Writers (often unwittingly) make use of what has previously been written and thus some degree of borrowing is inevitable. One of the key characteristics of academic writing across disciplines is the use of explicit conventions for acknowledging intertextuality, such as citation and bibliography. The conventions for marking intertextuality vary depending on the discourse community, with examples including MLA, APA, IEEE, and Chicago styles.

Summarizing and integrating other texts in academic writing is often metaphorically described as "entering the conversation," as described by Kenneth Burke:

Iterability: citing, with repetition, from simple fragments to wide use of parts of the other texts.

Presupposition: assuming one's audience makes reference to a text with respect to a context or phrases even when the reader is not present.

With intertexuality creativity is borrowed

Wittgenstein's Curse

The curse that language is limited so be sure to make disciplines, especially of the philosophical nature, meaningful in academic writing.

"Give up literary criticism!" Wittgenstein provoked guilt if the goal of writing was not useful.