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olivier corneille Profile picture
olivier corneille
@opatcorneille
Professor @UCLouvain. Experimental Psychology. Main research interest: Cognitive processes underlying evaluations. Views my own.
May 25, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Beware 'persuasive communication devices' in academic writing !

In this brief #OpenAccess article published in @eLife, we encourage authors, reviewers, and editors to reflect on the (mis)use of persuasive communication devices in #academicwriting 1/ 🧵

elifesciences.org/articles/88654 The article identifies 22 such persuasive tools, organized in four categories :

“Mischaracterizing the state-of-the-art”

... misleads the reader about the novelty or strength of the research by making inaccurate statements about the current state of scientific knowledge 2/ Image
Nov 13, 2021 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
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Below is a (short) list of persuasion tricks I’ve seen used in articles to help them get published, but at the expense of accuracy and truth.

Please feel free to add to this list.

Let’s be aware of what we’re doing when we’re using them. 1. Ignorance: Avoiding reference to past work that would necessarily decrease the perceived novelty or strength of one's paper.