You should not use contractions in essays anyway
Or the first person
What if it’s an essay on the use of contractions in modern society?
It is*
Ya’d’nt?
is the correct form y’all’dn’t’ve or y’all’d’ven’t
Kids these days with llms will never know the struggle of filling a word / page count .
Filler language will be a lost art, that hereto for, will not be practiced by our posterity in the coming generations of chatgpt indoctrinated youths. I do indeed struggle to weep for its demise though.
Bring back in person essay and short answer exams. Pencil to paper. Technology started to solve problems that didn’t exist when kids started getting their own laptops in schools. We were fine having them at home and in the library. Classrooms were for thinking, learning, reading, and writing. The physical act of writing helps to digest and internalize thoughts and ideas. You betcha you’ll remember something more reliably if you write it down instead of typing it.
My favorite one was increasing the font size for the ending dot on all paragraphs .
So subtle and efortless to do yet very practical.
Screw filler language. Increase the font size of all punctuation by 1pt.
Some teachers caught on so we had to go to 12.5. Could always fuck with margins, line spacing and kerning to make up for it, though!
Ours caught on to the line spacing and margins part which is why I switched to punctuation size. Kerning is one they never picked up on, though.
W e t h o u g h t w e w e r e s o c l e v e r .
Who is mikey
That’s one reason I loved my ethics professor. For our final project, someone asked if there was a minimum page count.
He said, “Nope. If you think you can fully cover the topic in one page, you’re free to take that risk.”
We also had to do chapter outlines that had to fall within a range of 5 lines, which was usually just slightly over 1 page. It was far more challenging to fit the summary into such a small space, and it was way more beneficial to us than having a minimum requirement.
Thou shalt not count to four, thou shalt not count to two unless proceeding to three
If you can’t bull shit a full paragraph, your not a millennial
*can not *you are most definitely not (Wordcountmaxxing)
When/where I was in school, that wouldn’t have counted. They counted only words >= 3 letters and excluded ‘the’.
Back in my day teachers had to count the number of letters in a word by hand. I suppose they would hand it off to a clanker now.
But neither of those two words means “essay.”
Holmes Carnal
I’m not so sure people writing essays know that’s a thing unless AI tells them so.
What a weird comment
Sorry. It seemed to make sense at the time.
