33: Excellent Academic Writing Must be Serious, by Michael Theune

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Excellent Academic Writing Must be Serious," by Michael Theune. It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: academic writing, comedy, composition, humor, writing

Michael Theune is the Robert Harrington Professor of English and Writing Program Director at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. (2020 bio)

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