Academic Writing Is Not Just for Journalists

i don't think we spend enough time explaining the very complicated things that we do to a wide audience, he says. We should all be grateful that you have spent as much time as you have writing these things - i could have had a perfectly reasonable and extremely distinguished career never having written any of these books. And there is a role for people who are actually immersed in the field,. who attend conferences, know the gossip, know the questions that are asked toa try to put it together for a wide audience. That does mean unlearning a lot of academic habits, not just writing defensively, like writing, hedging and and fussing everything up so that no one can ever show you wrong