A kind word for bullshit: The problem of academic writing

College Composition and Communication

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 372-388

  Eubanks, Philip ^a   Schaeffer, John D ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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