" Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. They have to say "discourse", not "talk". Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful" Story about Giving Personal Examples in Academic Essays Eli Hinkel Seattle University, Washington To help ESL writing teachers and curriculum designers focus instruction on appro- priate exemplification in academic prose, this paper examines the frequency of overt ex- ample markers and particular types of examples provided in native speaker (...