Timeline for Are adverbs frowned upon in proper English (academic writing)?
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| Apr 2, 2015 at 11:25 | comment | added | Mamta D | @PeterShor I added another link. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 11:22 | history | edited | Mamta D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2015 at 10:35 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Looking briefly at that study, it showed nothing more than that social scientists use adverbs more than mathematicians. To reach the conclusion in your first sentence, you would also need the fact that social science writing is harder to read that mathematical writing, which the author seems to take for granted. Being a mathematician, and knowing how many badly-written math papers there are, I am very skeptical of this claim. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 6:11 | history | answered | Mamta D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |