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  1. Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

    In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

    #AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

  2. Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

    In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

  3. Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

    In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

    #AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

  4. Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

    In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

    #AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

  5. Newsmast is new to Mastodon and #mastodonacademia. We’re a knowledge-based platform pooling facts, data and ideas. Built on Mastodon’s open-source technology, bringing together academics, journalists, charity workers and people who know their stuff from across the fediverse.

    Newsmast is made up of curated communities of interest, where we seek out and follow experts to lead the conversation; together with diverse voices, marginalized communities and people on the ground.

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  6. I would dare to ask fellow people to put under this tooth to share editors with fair practices.
    For anyone new: lots of great stuff on #researchgate (you can ask full text and access somme) and #AcademiaEdu, the three combined (i mean paying ofc) helps me everyday #research #mastodonacademia #academia #university

  7. I would dare to ask fellow people to put under this tooth to share editors with fair practices.
    For anyone new: lots of great stuff on #researchgate (you can ask full text and access somme) and #AcademiaEdu, the three combined (i mean paying ofc) helps me everyday #research #mastodonacademia #academia #university

  8. I would dare to ask fellow people to put under this tooth to share editors with fair practices.
    For anyone new: lots of great stuff on #researchgate (you can ask full text and access somme) and #AcademiaEdu, the three combined (i mean paying ofc) helps me everyday #research #mastodonacademia #academia #university

  9. I would dare to ask fellow people to put under this tooth to share editors with fair practices.
    For anyone new: lots of great stuff on #researchgate (you can ask full text and access somme) and #AcademiaEdu, the three combined (i mean paying ofc) helps me everyday #research #mastodonacademia #academia #university