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Why Academics Struggle as Columnists

Naval Postgraduate School professor Douglas A. Borer examines “Why Academics Struggle to Get Published in National Newspapers” in a piece by that name in the latest International Studies Perspectives. The short answer: Academics are too longwinded and nuanced to write in the broad strokes required for a gripping 700 word essay.

Via Dan Drezner, who has an extended excerpt of the piece which, ironically, proves Borer’s thesis all too well.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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A name like "Borer" is only too telling.

Posted by Anderson | July 13, 2006 | 03:46 pm | Permalink
 

Working link that doesn't complain about setting user cookies:

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2006.00254.x

Posted by Caliban Darklock | July 13, 2006 | 04:49 pm | Permalink
 

long winded, nuanced and don't forget "self-absorbed"

Posted by floyd | July 14, 2006 | 11:11 am | Permalink
 

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