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As a graduate student at a top research university I have to ask: where do scientists write concisely and accurately? That is the opposite of my experience. Academic writing is very obfuscatory and frequently full of typos, grammatical mistakes, or just straight-up inaccuracies. I blame the conference publication review process.


> That is the opposite of my experience.

I can't deny you your experience (especially as you have more of it than I do), at the same time, I can only echo my own. I don't know what your field is, mine is biology, and while we too have our share of obfuscated papers we also have many that are indeed as I described them above.


Ah, computer science! You should stay in real science.


I'm hoping the remark about "real science" was ironic, otherwise I would have to take pretty strong offense now ;-)




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