Krashen, Stephen
(2012)
A short paper proposing that we need to write shorter papers.
Language and Language Teaching, 1 (2).
pp. 38-39.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
Our current journals in language education are full of long papers. A typical journal might have, at most, five major papers. Sometimes we have to write long papers, but most of the time, it is unnecessary: The papers often contain long
introductions more suitable for doctoral dissertations or review ‘state of the art’ papers apparently designed to provide evidence that the author is well-read. They also have long conclusions, with a repetition of the findings and the author’s detailed and lengthy speculations about what the results might mean for theory and application.
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