zlacker

[return to "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"]
1. hayley+42[view] [source] 2024-11-28 09:49:27
>>bertma+(OP)
The message is fair and valid, and seemingly true, but cripes, that's some thick reading unless you are literally a scholar. Dial it back. Talk about never use 5 words when an opaque and obscure reference will do.
◧◩
2. Veen+44[view] [source] 2024-11-28 10:19:13
>>hayley+42
Essays have traditionally been discursive, referential, and elaborate. The genre is not intended to be a pragmatic information dump digested in the shortest possible time, but an occasion for laying out an argument while taking pleasure in possibilities of English prose.
[go to top]