Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Of Cabbages and Kings

All I can say about Asher and Lauer is


That's right. Nothing. I certainly read it. Didn't get it. I pray fervently for this week's facilitators.

The electronic reserve piece was a little more interesting (though large swathes were likewise unintelligible). Even now, I'm not sure what the researchers were really trying to accomplish. This shouldn't be the case: the reader, a grad student, not comprehending--after 2 hours of reading--what is going on.

Is this a symptom of some deficiency in me...or in the writing of the researchers...or in the presentation style of the "discourse" as a whole? What is wrong with writing simply, as clearly and succinctly as possible? Why the babbling jargon and long sentences crammed with many-lettered words of ambiguous meaning--sentences that are read over and over again, yet without any dawn of understanding???\

I look forward to the presentation tomorrow.

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