Improve your essay writing?!

You gotta love this week's story choice. In it, 3 students create a piece of software which randomly generates scientific sounding discourse. They use it to create an academic research paper that sounds good but is, in fact, a load of gibberish. Oh, the naughty student pranksters!? Nope, it gets much better, cos they go ahead and submit it to the organisers of a conference in order to test their hypothesis that such conferences often accept complete rubbish. I especially like this sentence: "we dogfooded our method on our own desktop machines, paying particular attention to USB key throughput". And hey, guess what? They were right!

Think about what this tells us about jargon, and have a go at random text generation yourself.

How gibberish put scientists to shame