It's an important thing to be said, and I agree with you. :-)

It's just... I've read academic work before, even in the humanities, and after reading that I feel like I'm from some other planet, or something. Maybe something more formal will be less alienating?

At any rate, if that's what passes as a good use of research grant funds and the time of doctorate-holding university faculty... maybe there's more wrong with me than I had anticipated.

Although I did garner what look like some good reading suggestions from that journal, which is what I decided long ago was the whole purpose of education, anyway. The development of reading lists. And there's an article in Japanese I'd like to decipher about testing methodologies and grammar test performance. Of course, I'll be starting with the conclusion! ;-)

This journal is peer-reviewed and the process from submission to print (if it goes smoothly) is supposed to be three months--so if I can submit one paper every month or two for the duration of my program, maybe I can get a few publications here...