If there were textbooks teaching academics how to write their PhDs and subsequent books, this spoof would constitute excellent advice: http://thepaperthinhymn.com/2010/01/26/how-to-speak-post-modernism/ At the non-spoofy end you'd have Sunil Khilnani, who, even when he's just writing a book review, seems as a writer in nearly a class by himself ('nearly' only because he'd have one companion in that class: Mukul Kesavan): http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115435/gary-basss-blood-telegram-reviewed-sunil-khilnani Neither entirely spoofy nor entirely serious is the style long adopted by TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan: http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/sanjay-subrahmanyam-myth-buster-113111301202_1.html