Academic Q&A Pet Peeves
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roselightfairy1) People who ask irrelevant questions solely to show off their own knowledge:
a. rambling for five minutes about something unrelated to the topic at hand and then either
i. trailing off into expectant silence and waiting for the presenter to figure out the question, or
ii. realizing they're not really asking a question and ending their self-important ramble with, "Can you speak to that?"
b. using a great deal of jargon (which the speaker did not introduce) that assumes a lot of specialized knowledge on the part of the presenter and the audience in order to ask a question only obliquely related to the purpose of the actual talk
2) "My question has two parts..."
3) Explaining the presenter's own subject to them.
Feel free to add your own!
a. rambling for five minutes about something unrelated to the topic at hand and then either
i. trailing off into expectant silence and waiting for the presenter to figure out the question, or
ii. realizing they're not really asking a question and ending their self-important ramble with, "Can you speak to that?"
b. using a great deal of jargon (which the speaker did not introduce) that assumes a lot of specialized knowledge on the part of the presenter and the audience in order to ask a question only obliquely related to the purpose of the actual talk
2) "My question has two parts..."
3) Explaining the presenter's own subject to them.
Feel free to add your own!
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Date: 2019-07-31 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-31 04:41 am (UTC)