THE METRICS OF STYLE: ADAM SMITH TEACHES EFFICIENT RHETORIC
作者:
Arthur M. Diamond,
David M. Levy,
期刊:
Economic Inquiry
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 32,
issue 1
页码: 138-145
ISSN:0095-2583
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1994.tb01317.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Does style matter for economic writing? Several stylistic characteristics of ninety‐seven AEA presidential addresses, including word length, sentence length and percent of sentences in the passive voice, were computed and used to explain citations to these economists' work. Avoidance of the passive is an old stylistic norm given by Adam Smith. Word length and sentence length serve as modern stylistic norms. Only the percent passive matters to explain citations. Perhaps not coincidentally, while writing clarity in our data set has declined over time when measured by the new norm, it has improved when measured by the old nor
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