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The Origins of Bad Writing

in bad writing, future of the humanities

(Crossposted at Arcade.) As Cecile Alduy points out in a recent ARCADE post, bad writing is far too common in literary criticism, which is surprising given the degree to which we are supposed to be attentive students of language and style. Cecile’s post has gotten me thinking, Why do we write so badly? This badness […]