Unconventional academic writing An addendum to Hartley's Academic writing and publishing: A practical handbook (2008)

Guillaume Cabanac (1, 2)

1 IRIT-SIG - Systèmes d’Informations Généralisées
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

Discover about 130 papers showing attempts at whimsy, humour, or conveying various human emotions that we hardly encounter in scientific literature (e.g., surprise, irony, anger, despise). These amusing papers were published in virtually all fields of science. As Kohn (1982) put it: Humour is the interdisciplinary denominator of science.

Mots clés: Humour; Publication; Academic writing; James Hartley

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Guillaume Cabanac. Unconventional academic writing An addendum to Hartley's Academic writing and publishing: A practical handbook (2008). 2016, ⟨10.6084/m9.figshare.1306561⟩. ⟨hal-03190219⟩