why smart people write bad

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Learn more than ever from important non-fiction books at https://shortform.com/progress and receive 5-days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription why is academia full of bad writers? did school teach us to write badly? how do we get better at writing? In this video, Taha explores how school makes us bad writers, why academics write so weirdly and how we can (potentially) write better! SUPPORT US ON PATREON https://patreon.com/answerinprogress SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER https://www.answerinprogress.com/newsletter SOCIAL MEDIA Sabrina Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdyandquirky Instagram: http://instagram.com/nerdyandquirky Melissa Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehlizfern Instagram: http://instagram.com/mehlizfern Taha Twitter: https://twitter.com/khanstopme Instagram: http://instagram.com/khanstopme CREDITS Produced by Taha Khan Video Editing by Joe Trickey Motion Design by Joe Trickey Special Thanks to Rachel Jepsen & Marco Lau MUSIC Epidemic Sound. Get started today using our affiliate link. http://share.epidemicsound.com/answerinprogress RECOMMENDED READING / SOURCES Full Interview with Rachel: https://youtu.be/Eyph66mQlfg The Craft of Writing Effectively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM Why Academics Stink at Writing by Steven Pinker: https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-academics-stink-at-writing/ The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/complex-academic-writing/412255/ The Bad Writing Competition: http://www.denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - uh oh did school fail us 00:10 - for if u wanna read more books 01:03 - why is academia written badly? 01:39 - small word do trick 02:15 - taha does an academia cosplay 03:16 - tfw u use the thesaurus too much 03:46 - why nobody can explain bereal to me 04:36 - maybe WE'RE the bad guys 04:58 - what time is it? powerpoint time 07:00 - nerds beefing each other 07:53 - in defence of academia 09:00 - writing by telling stories 09:41 - the best writing advice ever 10:18 - more things to watch! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the joke under the fold! I bought a pen that can write underwater, it can write other words as well. Leave a comment with the word "PEN" to let me know you were here ;-)