Sentences with phrase «academic jargon»

Maybe it's a legitimate word for contrived results — I'm far out of touch with academic jargon (grin).

This by now hoary bit of academic jargon marks Institutions of Modernism as the offspring of «cultural studies,» that popular pseudo-discipline that resulted from crossing Marxist animus with deconstructionist verbiage.

Goodwin briefly departed from academic jargon with one suggestion for trying to move the debate forward by suggesting that climate scientists voluntarily assume «extra responsibility» as follows:

The heart of his learned, thoroughly researched book (laden with over 1200 footnotes and burdened with dense academic jargon) is an exploration of the environmentally appropriate thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei Bulgakov.

But that's not how Ellis was understood by most, and there is a direct line to be drawn between the Ellis article and the self - conscious if tacit defensiveness of the Land O» Lakes statement, which seemed to say, yes, we're second - rate, maybe even third - rate, and the way to be first - rate is to be like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the rest of what would be called, in twenty - first - century Catholic academic jargon, «aspirational peers.»

Science's future lies in its power to inspire, and inspiration does not come from desiccated academic jargon.

Not only has Emily Braun, who supervised this exhibition, unearthed a wealth of information, but she has also written a substantial essay, «The Trauma of Painting,» that is wonderfully absent of academic jargon and hyperbole, making it a pleasure to read.

Writing for National Review had the feel of consorting with the right; writing for Commentary had the feel of — if I may be permitted the academic jargon — problematizing the left.

«Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — produce gains of about 0.1 or 0.2 or 0.3 standard deviations.

It's time for education advocates and the funders that support them to invest time, effort and resources in thinking through how to best communicate complicated policy concepts so they are understood by all, without acronyms and academic jargon, and with language that describes achievable change.

Hayley has a unique selling point as she combines her academic and non-academic experiences to provide comprehensive and analytical arguments without the academic jargon often used by scholars.