Why is Academic Writing so Bad?
An insight from Alvin Plantinga
This morning I returned to Knowledge and Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga, the Templeton-prize winning genius who’s arguably one of the best prose-stylists in modern philosophy.
Tucked in at the beginning of the book, in a throwaway paragraph, Plantinga makes a wonderfully incisive comment about dismal quality of much academic prose-writing.
In a disc…
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