It’s a step down. This is not efficient writing. It would rank as very bad academic writing indeed.
It’s not even good for academia, journals are flooded with slop.
It’s not even good for academia, journals are flooded with slop.
Asimov joked that when it was time to write his thesis, he worried that he wouldn't be able to write as poorly as is expected in academia given that he had spent most of the last decade trying to improve his writing.