Academic writing need not sacrifice passion for supposed neutrality

Evidence

In our own day it is impossible not to notice that, in some fields at least, there is the beginning of a drift away from the academic; the educated public gives subjective scholarship an enthusiastic support which it combines with lip-service to research; and research has itself become discredited in certain contexts, by being too widely extended to inadequate and unimportant subjects. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1711 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mixing serious intent with undisciplined language is deliberate disciplinary critique — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 787; Political writing requires partisan passion, not detached scientific objectivity — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 727; Discourse is not reducible to class interest yet is never neutral — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 581 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Contemporary educated audiences favor subjective scholarship while merely lip-serving research #complicates (0.71) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1711