DarrinBrunner comments on The modern formatting addiction in writing

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

People write with headers and bullets when they don't have any content. It looks like a PowerPoint slide, not for brevity, but to hide that they didn't do any work. They aren't summarizing, the bullet points are the work.

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[–] bluelander@mastodon.social 1 point 8 months ago

Yep, it's the same impulse that made people turn the font size up to 16 and increase the margins as much as allowable and triple-space their essays in high school. It's to make it look like you have something when you don't. Teachers weren't fooled, but maybe the average reader will give them the benefit of the doubt and imagine there's a good essay there

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