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What is the value of making academic writing inscrutable? Every time I've had a class where we've had to read somebody's dissertation it hasn't made any sense, didn't apply its abstruse theories to any actual examples, and the instructor had to break it down for everybody. They say it's because they're taught to write that way in "formal academia" but *why?* What is the point? wouldn't it make more sense to write stuff that more people can understand, so that there isn't confusion between the "scholars?"
What is the value of making academic writing inscrutable?
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