What is academic writing? What is it good for? What are its strengths and weaknesses? The Writing Program at University of Chicago takes a wild run at the general topic by offering a spoofy academic sentence generator, which creates jargon-laden monsters at the click of a button. Samples:

• The politics of print culture carries with it the logic of civil society.

• The logic of print culture carries with it the politics of civil society.

• The politics of civil society carries with it the logic of print culture.

The site is kind enough to provide scholarly reviews on demand, too:

• Your crucial redefinition of the politics of print culture is a triumph of scholarship and critical acumen.

• Your desultory treatment of the politics of print culture deserves the obscurity into which it has fallen.