Please welcome freelance content writer Jessica Freeman from Sydney, Australia, who shares her thoughts on why academic writing has become so boring to read … plus some ways in which to make it more reader-friendly. Over to Jessica…
Academic writing exists only to share knowledge and ideas. Sadly, we have created a culture where students are trained to create sterile and clinical documents. Academic work tends to be very technical, and students are afraid to add a little flair or entertainment value through fear of losing marks when they are graded.
Academic writing has its own unique structure, and writers are not penalized for being boring.
This habit of writing sterile and clinical documents then follows the academic through his or her life and few academics ever learn how to write entertaining texts.
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