No Relation to Rhett by: Bethany Stotts, February 13, 2008 Chicago, Ill.—At a panel on “Revision as Writing, Writing as Revision,” Modern Language Association (MLA) panelists offered tips to increase the clarity and quality of academic writing ... In direct contrast to the other panelists’ emphasis on cogency and understandable writing, Birkenstein-Graff suggested that academic writers look to “Bad Writing Award” winner Judith Butler for inspiration. According to the UI Chicago lecturer, Butler is a “masterful, masterful writer” who “directly engages what her harshest critics say about her work.”... One topical sentence from Butler’s 2004 Bodies That Matter reads “The...