"academic writing: It’s filled with abstract language, clunky transitions, clichés, “zombie nouns,” and “compulsive hedging.”

"Enough jargon and scholar-ese, write simply and with clarity . . .Harvard Gazette: Exorcising the curse of knowledgehttp://t.co/BlbVj8mx"

Exorcising the curse of knowledge

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Author Steven Pinker told a packed audience what is wrong with so much academic writing: It’s filled with abstract language, clunky transitions, clichés, “zombie nouns,” and “compulsive hedging.”