Why Academics Stink at Writing

Steven Pinker at the Chronicle of Higher Education,

"Instead of moralistic finger-pointing or evasive blame-shifting, perhaps we should try to understand academese by engaging in what academics do best: analysis and explanation. An insight from literary analysis and an insight from cognitive science go a long way toward explaining why people who devote their lives to the world of ideas are so inept at conveying them."

(via Arts & Letters Daily)