Comment on Aspirations
fireweed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A major turning point in one’s academic journey is when you go from struggling to compose a lengthy and impressive essay to struggling to compose a concise and accessible essay (otherwise known as the “too-short-and-basic to too-long-and-pompous shift”). Sometimes this takes leaving academia and realizing that your masterpiece work doesn’t mean shit if no one bothered to read it.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I was an engineer is school. I’ve always been good at fluffing up my writing, but it always annoyed me that I had to make things longer when I felt like I was already done.
When one of my first engineering reports said “this has to be no more than 2 pages long” as opposed to “at least” I knew I had chosen the right school. Lol
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Don’t forget 2 pages with pictures and tables.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 months ago
I only knew “at least 20 pages, in Arial 12, line height x” so far.