This article reports a study of one high school senior's process of academic bullshitting as she wrote an analytic essay interpreting Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing." The construct of bullshit has received little scholarly attention; although it is known as a common phenomenon in academic speech and writing, it has rarely been the subject…

The "Battle of the Books" program includes the competition of English classes against each other and each class has a designated team, which gets first chance at the questions, but can ask for help from the rest of the class. Most of the competitions included two or three teams battling the competition and the winning scores got higher at each…