The Aesthetic Pleasures of Scholarly Writing
While it may seem unlikely, such writing can actually provide a great opportunity for playing with the meanings and the music of language
"To talk, as I am here, about the aesthetic pleasures of scholarly writing is surely a fool’s game. After all, we know that much academic writing is at best intelligible and at worst unreadable. To gain aesthetic pleasure from either the writing or the reading of scholarly texts seems the remotest of prospects."
David F. Labaree is the Lee L. Jacks Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and author of A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education.
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