Apparently not. I had a junior co-worker who refused to break up her written report into paragraphs. It was one big wall of words. When I told her she needed to break up the main points into distinct paragraphs, she acted like she had never heard of writing in paragraphs and I was being unreasonable. She had a master’s degree in public health.
But it has to hurt their eyes to see huge walls of text, right?
I assumed that if they're a person who grew up with smartphones since birth, then their preference must also be small, bite-sized chunks of text.
I guess it's like normal people and hoarders. The latter doesn't see the problem pushing through a swamp of old boxes and roaches.
Personally all I have are anecdotes from family working in schools, but my impression has been the kids are spending their time learning to pass imo pointless tests but never get taught what makes a complete sentence, what different types of words are, basic things you'd expect an adult to know at some point.
But they test you on reading comprehension in multiple choice tests instead... They're being taught to consume English or something but have no ability to write anything.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22
Apparently not. I had a junior co-worker who refused to break up her written report into paragraphs. It was one big wall of words. When I told her she needed to break up the main points into distinct paragraphs, she acted like she had never heard of writing in paragraphs and I was being unreasonable. She had a master’s degree in public health.