Jenny Tan
byjennytan
My take on "I argue" and other signposting metalanguage in ac writing: It works when it lets the reader do less work. It doesn't work when the writer uses it
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While we're dunking on Harry Potter, something that always bothered me about the books was the tension between the Hogwarts Houses as personality types treated as essential identities vs. social
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Sometimes I refer to myself as an "ex-scholar" in conversation, and academics rush to reassure me that, no, even without an academic job, I'm still a scholar! And I know
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