Researchers, scientists, academicians marshal their facts to a higher standard, but with their neglect of the emotive power of language they often speak only to each other, their parochial words dropping like sand on a private desert.

Sol Stein. Stein on Writing.

(Most) academic writing is boring to read. Mine too. There, I’ve said it. It’s rare to find a research publication that’s not only informative and insightful, but written to invite reading.

How much of our faculty development is aimed at improving the mechanics of writing, without regard for the “emotive power of language”?