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In reply to the discussion: Typical example of college writing I see [View all]OilemFirchen
(7,251 posts)It's apparently a social media trend. Capital letters and punctuation can lead to a pile on of harassment. It's unsurprising, then, that these kids write academically in a similar manner.
When challenged, a common retort is "yabbut did you understand it?"
I also graduated from a prestige journalism school. One class early on was devoted to headline writing. It toughens one's writing skills to learn how to express the gist of an article given a certain number of column inches, justified left and right, with each letter of type a fixed width, and the entirety of the headline weighted by kerning. There's obviously no need for that these days, but if J-schools still required it we'd likely, at the very least, be able to understand a published article without having to dig deep into our crania to make sense of it.
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