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Notes
1. The previous portions of this editor’s essay, from the title to the quote from Langston Hughes, were published on June 8, 2020, in the PageTurner Blog maintained by the Arthur W. Page Society at https://page.org/blog. Reprinted here with permission from the Page Society. The essay has been modified for this academic publication with the addition of references in APA style, as well as the addition of the subhead “Proof.”
2. I acknowledge that the notion of “correct” academic writing often is grounded in U.S.-led practices and expectations regarding research “standards,” and I encourage us to reflect on ways in which “traditional” academic writing requires “decolonizing” to better permit the expression of marginalized terrains and methods of scholarly inquiry.