Univocality and Civility in Scientific Writing: A Return to Sense Making
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“[To stop] the reading wars, a good first step would be addressing the term itself. Terminologist Riggs (1993) noted that the… use of [the term reading wars] comes not only from usage in scholarly work; instead, multiple, and confusing definitions are often ‘compounded by journalists, politicians and other writers in ordinary language who often borrow words from technical writing to serve non-scholarly purposes. Thereby, they add new meanings to them, often, poorly defined and loaded with affective, usually pejorative, connotations’ (Riggs, 1993, p. 1)” (as quoted in Samuel DeJulio, Dixie D. Massey, Norman Stahl & James King (06 Feb 2024): Terminologically Speaking, the Reading Wars, Reading Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/02702711.2024.2309342).
Univocality and Civility in Scientific Writing: A Return to Sense Making
Univocality and Civility in Scientific…
Univocality and Civility in Scientific Writing: A Return to Sense Making
“[To stop] the reading wars, a good first step would be addressing the term itself. Terminologist Riggs (1993) noted that the… use of [the term reading wars] comes not only from usage in scholarly work; instead, multiple, and confusing definitions are often ‘compounded by journalists, politicians and other writers in ordinary language who often borrow words from technical writing to serve non-scholarly purposes. Thereby, they add new meanings to them, often, poorly defined and loaded with affective, usually pejorative, connotations’ (Riggs, 1993, p. 1)” (as quoted in Samuel DeJulio, Dixie D. Massey, Norman Stahl & James King (06 Feb 2024): Terminologically Speaking, the Reading Wars, Reading Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/02702711.2024.2309342).