{"id":780,"date":"2022-12-01T21:43:24-05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T02:43:24+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2022-12-01T21:43:24-05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T02:43:24+00:00","slug":"15-rules-for-writing-generic-scholarly-articles-white-papers-and-annual-reports-that-absolutely-no-one-will-enjoy-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/15-rules-for-writing-generic-scholarly-articles-white-papers-and-annual-reports-that-absolutely-no-one-will-enjoy-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Rules for Writing Generic Scholarly Articles, White Papers, and Annual Reports That Absolutely No One Will Enjoy Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The passive voice must always be used. <\/li>\n\t
  2. Avoid simple words like \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter.\u201d Instead, opt for \u201cprior to,\u201d \u201cin advance of,\u201d and \u201csubsequent to,\u201d which will doubtless make you sound more intelligent. <\/li>\n\t
  3. To leverage your core competencies, liaise with key stakeholders, and build capacity in oral and written expression, it is to be ensured that every management-speak clich\u00e9 is utilized going forward by all personnel\u2014or they may risk being rightsized for not using best practices in their writing methodology. Remember, you\u2019ll never be impactful without lots of jargon and gobbledygook, so stay within the parameters. <\/li>\n\t
  4. Never write \u201cpeople.\u201d Write \u201cpersons\u201d and \u201cindividuals\u201d instead\u2014preferably ten times on the same page. <\/li>\n\t
  5. Even though you finished grad school ten years ago, write as though you\u2019ve got a professor who wants a specific word count. Pad your sentences and paragraphs with as many redundant, repetitious, pleonastic, redundant, and tautological phrases and locutions as possible. Make them circuitous and repetitive, too. \u201cOverall,\u201d \u201cin the final analysis,\u201d and \u201cit is interesting to note\u201d are also handy ways to lengthen a paper that\u2019s otherwise short on content. <\/li>\n\t
  6. Who needs \u201cbecause\u201d when you can use \u201cdue to the fact that,\u201d \u201cin light of the fact that,\u201d and \u201cowing to the fact that\u201d?<\/li>\n\t
  7. Add in some legalese for extra variety. You\u2019ll always sound more authoritative if you say \u201cpursuant to\u201d instead of \u201cunder\u201d or \u201caccording to.\u201d <\/li>\n\t
  8. Forget what Strunk and White said about omitting needless words. In fact, you should include a plethora of superfluous vocables in excess; otherwise, you won\u2019t come across as scholarly enough. (See also Rule 5.<\/em>) <\/li>\n\t
  9. Spock and Data from Star Trek<\/em> should be your models of good writing. Contractions make you sound personable, which is not the done thing. <\/li>\n\t
  10. A paper is never complete without a few parenthetical references (PRs), especially for words that won\u2019t be used anywhere else in the paper. <\/li>\n\t
  11. Never start your sentences with \u201cand\u201d or \u201cbut.\u201d Use heavy openers like \u201cin addition\u201d and \u201chowever\u201d instead. <\/li>\n\t
  12. When quoting sources, don\u2019t use \u201csaid.\u201d Words like \u201cnoted,\u201d \u201cindicated,\u201d and \u201cstated\u201d sound more elegant, don\u2019t you think? <\/li>\n\t
  13. To sound more credible, say \u201cevidence-based\u201d and \u201cbest practices,\u201d even when the evidence in question is a few online commenters, and the \u201cbest\u201d practices aren\u2019t even in the top ten. <\/li>\n\t
  14. If you\u2019re a psychology researcher, be sure to say that your respondents \u201cendorsed\u201d having depression and anxiety\u2014because nine out of ten patients apparently endorse feeling like shit. <\/li>\n\t
  15. Never get help with your writing. After all, your middle-school English teacher told you that you were the best writer in the class, so how much more help do you need? <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    The passive voice must always be used. Avoid simple words like \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter.\u201d Instead, opt for \u201cprior to,\u201d \u201cin advance of,\u201d and \u201csubsequent to,\u201d which will doubtless make you sound more intelligent. To leverage your core competencies, liaise with key stakeholders, and build capacity in oral and written expression, it is to be ensured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","venue_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorised","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}