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Sinners Well Edited
- Journal of Scholarly Publishing
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 39, Number 2, January 2008
- pp. 168-173
- 10.1353/scp.2008.0002
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It is not possible to blame ‘technology’ for the inability of many academics to write well, because most of today’s faculty were trained before the advent of cell phones and computers. Bad writing is, as Lindsay Waters suggest in Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship, partly caused by too much administrative pressure for too much output. Editors are caught in the middle, between administrators trying to control costs and academics trying to get published. The author offers practical suggestions for academic writers to improve their writing and so save time and money on the part of editors and administrators.