Whatever you do, don’t neglect that Derrida citation

Posted on April 30, 2007 by cicada

SCQ tells us how to write a paper! If only I’d learned useful stuff like this in grad school, I’d have already appeared on a History Channel documentary about The Da Vinci Code, spewing some sort of bombast about Merovingian mitochondrial DNA. Ah, the road not taken. . .
TEN BASIC HEURISTIC PRINCIPLES FOR ACADEMIC TEXT CRAFTING, OR HOW TO PUBLISH A PAPER IN A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL

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2 Responses to Whatever you do, don’t neglect that Derrida citation

  1. mdvlist says:
    May 1, 2007 at 6:36 am

    Okay, maybe we could get away with making no sense, but I don’t think we could get away with anything as blatantly ungrammatical as “could not have came up with.” That woman is giving people false hope.

  2. cicada says:
    May 2, 2007 at 10:29 am

    I’d like to say I could never have came up with such a ungrammatical construction myself, but alas, I have done so. Too much reading addles the brain.

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