I am a student of History, I love it. I want to learn History, all of it, plato to nato and all that. I want to grow up to write articles for scholarly journals, and edit the work of others. Any of you who have ever read a scholarly journal article are likely wondering why. Why in god's name, would I want to write those?
Because clearly, they suck, and I am the only one with the power to save the history departments of the world from falling asleep. That's right, I'm a historical superhero. Go me.
I know that these are supposed to be professional, no-nonesense fact pieces, but really, does the language they use have to be THAT dry? While I don't expect historians the world over to turn into Bill Bryson and break out into poetical comparisons for everything, relaxing the language just a tad would make it a lot more enjoyable to read through.
I think if we band together we can either fix this terrible blight in the history students who are subjected to reading through pdf's and archived journals or we can all whine about it together.
Who's with me?
Lisa
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The Caped Chronicler
The Heroine of History
The Protagonist of the Past...
Ladies and gentlemen, our very own super hero.
The Narrator!
Ace hath vanished from the internets?
;- P
Hear, hear! Down with the stuffy scholars who demand formal language and professional structure. Arise, the analogy! Arise, the humourous aside! Arise, readability!
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