There is no reason to expect academic writing to be graceful or elegant; Dennis Dutton explained how an appealing prose style wasn’t a requirement to attract people into a scholarly life. Dennis Dutton has been an editor for a a relatively small journal that has gained public attention over the past few years just by showcasing difficult sentences that will challenge and provoke the reader to look at controversial topics in a new way as well as challenging their common sense which she described which differs from person to person based on human perspective. He explains how for the past 23 years working as the editor of the journal he’s came across all types of writing, some which are great, adequate, or just plain awful. After such happening the Bad Writing Contest was born and participants would write entries of a sentence or two of length. For 4 years now, the contest has attracted over 70. The winners of the contest typically persuaded their readers by obscurity and not by argument.
AuthorMy name is Alex Ivan Martinez, I'm a freshman at UTEP seeking an Engineering Leadership major and a graphic design minor.
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