Grad students sometimes ask me: how useful is Reddit for getting answers to questions about academic writing and publishing?
It's... not great, Bob. And here's why. 🧵
It's... not great, Bob. And here's why. 🧵
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A sub like /r/AskAcademia is a lamp that attracts so many moths.
Sometimes, their replies reflect what I call the "N of 1 problem."
They only know as much as they know. If they did it one way, that's the way it should be done.
Pretty much everything—from author order, stylistic norms, what qualifies as "data"—differs.
What is true in a hard science likely won't hold true in the humanities.
In practice, attention dictates what responses you get to a question.