Beschreibung:
This book explores the nature of clarity in academic writing, by scrutinizing the ideal of clarity beyond its apparently self-evident value.
Acknowledgements Introductory Remarks: The Question of Clarity Part 1: The Poetics of Clarity in Contemporary Academic Writing 1. The Idealised Plane of Poetics: Core Concepts and Ideals 2. The Formation of Sentences 3. Researchers-in-the-Texts 4. Textual Structures of Research Articles Part 2: Reflections on The Consequences for Thinking 5. The Unstable Distinction Between Form and Content 6. Phrase Regimes, Genres, and the Expulsion of Metaphors 7. Authorial Effacement and the Suppression of Contexts, Biases, Interests 8. Textual Structures as Templates for Thinking 9. Thinking the Limits and the Limits for Thinking: The Inherent Positivist Bias 10. Clarity: A Potential Acceleration of Thinking? Epilogue Appendix I: A Note on Rancière's Poetics of Knowledge Appendix II: A Note on Methods Works Cited Index