How Not To Write An Interesting Essay
Kaj Sand-Jensen is a professor of aquatic biology who has identified ten characteristics that make a paper dull and uninteresting. Here is a link to his original text.
In short, here are his ten points:
In short, here are his ten points:
- Avoid focus
- Avoid originality and personality
- Make it really long
- Remove any potential implications of the work
- Leave out illustrations, especially good ones
- Omit necessary steps of reasoning
- Use as many acronyms, abbreviations and technical terms as possible
- Don't be amusing or creative in language
- Focus only on statistics
- Support every statement with a reference (or more than one)
Labels: Sand-Jensen, Writing
etched with acid at 10:08:00 pm
2 Comments:
Yay I talked about the implications of my LNAT essay although that wasn't *ahem* implicitly asked for...
And I certainly wasn't able to support every statement with a reference ;) Which is a good thing! Possibly means I actually used logic instead of empirical observations as the basis of my arguments.
I'd say get well soon, but this isn't quite the right post to do that...
uh oh. guilty as charged for ee.
and coffee. grin.
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