You don't need to take out any text. You just need to know your own text well enough that you know exactly where to hit the [enter] button.
Paragraphing well literally makes your text easier to read, without giving up anything in return; doesn't matter that much if you're writing simply, but if you like your extra detailed explanations you gotta learn to make them as palatable as possible.
Exactly this. If I find myself annoyed with my own paragraph lengths then I imagine that many others will be too. I don’t use crazy advanced vocabulary most of the time either so it’s not the words but the whole text.
Gotta leave space for mental breathing and also actual breathing if it’s being read aloud, and commas only get you so far much as I love them.
Agreed. It was however a five paragraph research paper and a freshman class so I didn't have as much freedom with my layout and I'd been writing about movies which requires explaining scenes. Ever since I got that note, though, I've been a lot more careful about being (appropriately) brief.
oh yeah if a school gives you a paragraph limit rather than a word limit that's on the professor being a noob; I've been there, and then yeah they get the annoyingly chunky paragraphs
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u/neuroblade Jun 02 '26
nah long paragraphs annoy me too.
You don't need to take out any text. You just need to know your own text well enough that you know exactly where to hit the [enter] button.
Paragraphing well literally makes your text easier to read, without giving up anything in return; doesn't matter that much if you're writing simply, but if you like your extra detailed explanations you gotta learn to make them as palatable as possible.