Dennis button, the editor of a small journal that challenged its readers 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, explained how the Bad Writing Contest started and the essential purpose of it was. Many writers in the scholarly world tend to write gracefully and persuade their writer with facts and arguments, while some persuaded them with obscurity as Denis Dutton referred to it, which simply means by attracting and persuading the reader with textual objectivity or the use of common language.
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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.
By Judith Butler Synthesis
Throughout the reading, we can clearly see how the readers of a journal that has gained popularity over the past few months challenges the reader by showcasing sentences written in a difficult manner by intellectuals of the academy as well as accusing some of us as bad writers. Which provokes them 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. A `Bad Writer' Bites Back talks about a relatively small journal that has gained public attention over the past few years just by showcasing difficult sentences that will challenge the reader. In result, the journal philosophy and literature has been seen by its readers as the arbiter of good prose, it earned its name by its common readers who are scholars who are familiar with controversial topics and their relation to language and politics. Judith then explains how common sense “works” or at least her point of view on it, she gives an example of how before it was common sense for a white man to own a slave, which today would be unthinkable. She also stated how some people think it would be common sense to protect gay couples against discrimination while in the other hand another group of people wouldn’t see that as common sense or even accept it as a result after reading these examples we can see that common sense is perhaps not so common.
Dorothy Winsor explains how “our explanations are weak because our questions are weak” (8). By this she means that In order to be successful writers it is necessary to make the right questions in order to get the required information. In this article she introduces the example of the “Challenger’s explosion” in which the failures were caused because of miscommunication of employees who were responsible for the failure of the space shuttle. Since “people in the organizations involved knew about the faulty O-rings but failed to pass on the information to decision makers” (7). This could be caused because of the way they communicate the problem and that they did not show it was a serious a problem and the decision makers did not pay too much attention to it.
In the article titled The Construction of Knowledge in Organizations by Dorothy Winsor, she starts the text by introducing a question that will lead for further discussion and provoke the audience. Winsor asks "Why did it happen that various people in the organizations involved knew about the faulty O-rings that cause the Challenger to explode but failed to pass on the information to decision makers (7)?" The author establishes that it seemed that personnel from NASA and Thiokol Inc. knew about the problem and failed to act or knew and ignores the plain evidence. Winsor states two parts to her question, which are, "knew" and "pass on the information." This suggests that throughout the article, we can evidently see how Winsor compares and analyzes the difficulties with knowing and passing on the information. Winsor asks in the discussions, "What does it mean to know something?" She first analyzes and explains how knowledge is based on evidence and to be based on evidence, Secondly Winsor states that "Knowledge is regarded as certain if someone is still unsure of an idea, we don't usually call the idea knowledge (8)." During the explanations and the rest of the article, Winsor continues to explore and argue about what it means to know something enforcing this idea by using the Challengers explosion mission as an example. The different causes why the Challenger failed the mission. It is key to see the different perspectives that exist. One being the people who knew about the situation and that the challenger could fail and the people who didn't know about it because of employees lack of communication or sharing the information. This article could go alongside decision making can also affect miscommunication, as in the Challenger mission people had the knowledge but could not decide on what to do so that resulted in a lack of communication and the fail of the Challenger mission.
The student will feel that with the help of the internet their ideas will be correct and original; that's how plagiarism comes into play. The internet is readily available to use to find information to use as your own so therefore plagiarism is more tempting and easier to do. Plagiarizing with the internet is very easy because copying and pasting a text can be easily done in a few seconds.
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