Scientists Reveal How They Use Over-the-Top Language to Hide Their Stupid Mistakes
This explains absolutely everything!
I think it is safe to say that not many of us in the real world read scientific journals.
However, some people do, and those individuals have just as much trouble as you might expect when attempting to wade through the sea of unnecessary jargon used by professionals in those reports.
Recently, through the power of collective thought on the internet, we have been presented with a hilarious set of examples of times when all that ridiculously complicated language was actually just a way of covering up really funny mistakes that these scientists made in the field.
It began with this example from user blueelectricangels.
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It turns out there is a never-ending amount of these examples if you just dig into field reports a little bit.
But how does one develop academic language? The California State University, Northridge, states that there is no one way to go about it.
“For text types, it is important to make the conventions explicit, often providing graphic organizers when students are first learning how to produce the text type,”they write.
“For less predictable language tasks, students need to understand the nature of the task and the range of possible responses and associated language. When students are just learning to use a particular form of academic language, they will need more scaffolding and support. For example, an English teacher trying to develop students’ abilities to follow up on a student comment might invite students to brainstorm different types of responses (e.g., agreement with elaboration, agreement with qualification, disagreement) together with some typical sentence starters or grammatical structures for each type of response.”I think this is it.
What a sentence.
Correct.
I think this is also it.
Incredible use of scientific funding.
This is what NASA has been doing with their funding all these years...
