#is this bc i have a 2000 word essay due in three hours? maybe

[accio-strawbz]

academia is ridiculously unaccessible

i am so so so sick of writing essays. like sure whatever use your fancy paragraph structures and ban contractions idc but ! holy shit! if you want people other than university students and scholars to read your findings, present it goddamn differently!

academic writing is fine. its good. sometimes i read articles and cry bc what the fuck. theyre so complicated and damn these nerds just really need Grammarly (tm). like you can get the same point across in one sentence instead of THIRTY.

[side note every time i reference using my uni's system i die a little inside bc there's no fucking comma between the authors name and the year. wtf is that about]

but if you want people to actually read and understand and appreicate your work, you gotta present it in different ways. like not everyone wants to, or CAN, sit down and read your hundred page document about a very specific type of crime for exactly two sentences of useful information.

present. your. work. in. varying. ways.

imagine how much more people would trust scientists and researchers if they just presented their findings in more accessible ways? im talking speeches, artwork, memes, fuckin instagram infographics, a youtube video, comics, blog posts, etc.

i recently wrote a blog post for an assignment and it was so so so freeing. probably the best assignment ive done all year and guess why? bc i used images and exclamation marks and brackets with a little 'fun fact' in them. i referenced a hobby i have that was relevant! and i got my point across, and i analysed and evaluated what i meant to, and it was both fun to write and to read. i used dramatic italics ffs!!!!!!

honestly fuck academia use language however you want nothing is real and i am so tired of writing tihs godforsaken essay

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