Q: What are things to be avoided in academic writing?

[A2A] Are you seated? Then we’ll begin.

Here are some the major hazards that I tell my clients to look out for and avoid:

• Overly verbose and latinate language
• Non-idiomatic language
• Ambiguous wording
• Spiral writing
• Mowing the lawn twice
• Lost subject or object

Please: parsha no more

It’s a common refrain in Jewish synagogues throughout the English-speaking world:

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—and it drives me (and no doubt every Israeli) around the bend every time I encounter it.