POINT OF VIEW

Changing the Hollow Conventions of Academic Writing

By ELIZABETH RANKIN

When I was in graduate school, I had the good luck to have a seminar paper accepted for publication in a new but respected literary journal. Thrilled at seeing my name in print for the first time, I was pleased when my faculty mentor mentioned that he knew one of the critics whose work I had quoted and asked if he could send the fellow...

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