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Barnard, Ian – College Composition and Communication, 2010
This essay interrogates the concept of "clarity" that has become an imperative of effective student writing. I show that clarity is neither axiomatic nor transparent, and that the clear/unclear binary that informs the identification of clarity as a goal of effective student writing is itself unstable precisely because of the ideological baggage…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Rhetoric, Student Writing Models, Jargon