Post a Comment On: Internal Monologue

If academic pretension and florid scholarly verbiage have ever driven you nuts, you'll appreciate these two satirical posts from App Crit's Office Hours Cancelled blog. The most recent is a scoring system to rate the titles of academic articles ("Discoursing Running Asunder: meta-stercoration and trans-scataficationism in the epinomenclaturismatica of neo-cultural studies" gets 24 points). The other is a recipe for writing academic abstracts before you've even written the paper! ("Sprinkle arrogance over mixture and gently fold in AS-wise outsider. Add one French/Italian phrase.")   Sometimes I think maybe I shoulda gone to grad school. And maybe someday I will. Oh boy what fun I'll have!