Needed: Writing Classes for Scientists
Have you ever read a journal article and realized, "Well, you know, this guy must be really smart, but I can't make head nor tail out of what he's saying"? And thought that the problem was that you weren't smart enough to understand it? And then come to realize that you actually would be smart enough to understand it--if you could only make your way through the tangled and sometimes overcooked spaghetti of the writer's style?

Yeah. My experience exactly.

I don't care if you have a Nobel Prize (this guy does, actually). It's no substitute for little niceties like... you know, paragraphs that actually contain information on the same topic instead of jumping around from one to another without warning, without any connecting words to warn you where the heck the writer is going, and without any attention to the fact that scientific language is meant to add precision, and does not have to be used when a common word is just as precise.

Arrrgh!

That is all.