Gah!

[yendi]

How can two academic researchers, an unknown number of peer reviewers, and the editor (and any copyeditors) not notice that the first sentence of the article is redundant?

That would be this sentence:

The usage of computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been widely used in higher education as a teaching and learning tool for both blended and online courses in numerous disciplines.

(Emphasis mine)

Ugh.

Comments

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

*shuddering*

Thank you so much!

[yendi]

This is why I hate academic writing so much. So few people seem to have ever learned to write, even though they work in a field that relies on written communication.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

What would be funny would be if the emphasis wasn't yours.

[yendi]

Heh.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

You can use a usage.

Now, it probably is SUPPOSED to mean that CMC has been used. But you could use the usage of CMC as a data point to study, for instance, the breakdown of small-scale face to face community.

[yendi]

You definitely can use a usage, but I can assure you that in this instance, that wasn't the intent.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

And if it was, they should have phrased it better.

I can see how the author might not spot it (I miss stuff like that all the time), but the copyeditor?

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Once they get all their technical jargon out they aren't so concerned with copy editing. I've edited much much worse.

[28bytes.livejournal.com]

I see the problem. It's not academic enough. Here's what it should be:

"The utilization of computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been widely utilized in higher education as a teaching and learning tool for both blended and online courses in numerous disciplines."

Much better.