Nit: Is anyone else annoyed by the trend of people using block quote formatting to emphasize their own topic sentences rather than to quote from another source? In addition to being visually annoying, to me it highlights that the author habitually doesn't interact with whatever literature exists (i.e. if they sometimes needed to quote a paragraph from another author, they wouldn't use block quote formatting in this way), which signals that they're more likely to be missing something that's well known to people in the field.
You see it on reddit quite a bit. I wonder where the author learned that style of writing from; certainly no institution that could teach one to properly write to an established literary style.
It's super annoying. There's no reason to bold the chosen text, or any text in this post. I mean, it's on substack ffs.
Worse is when authors use emojis in titles or text. Maybe we can blame tiktok brain rot or just gen-z in general. There's gotta be someone we can toss under the bus and I bet they don't know what cursive handwriting is!
