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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=dony898]Everyone dunks on English majors until they need help writing a single coherent sentence on LinkedIn.[/quote]
I had to write a job description recently and used AI for the first to time to do it. It was pretty dam* good. I just had to tweak it a bit.  I was a bit shocked.

I saw a video of a fake podcast created by Google Gemini for a technical manual.  It was shockingly amazing.[/quote]

I think many, if not most, people find it to be good because they can't write to save their arse so anything that's comprehensible is going to be good.[/quote]
But, it was really good for a job description.  It's not the Harvard Review.[/quote]

Well if one can barely string two sentences together, I'm sure its great. [/quote]
It was actually half a page with bullets. It was pretty good - clear and concise. If an English major wrote it would've been verbose and flowery. That doesn't fly in my industry.

My kid was in an IB magnet, and I think it was a great program for them, made them stronger writers. But, do you know what all the kids called IB?  "I Bulls*!t".   [/quote]

I'm not an English major but I know enough that English majors are taught precisely not to be flowery and verbose![/quote]

I don't recall being taught anything about writing. I think most people who choose to major in English are pretty good writers beforehand. [/quote]

But they learn to write well by virtue of reading various literature and the various writing assignments they must complete to pass the course. Not everyone gets an "A" on their first college essay or paper, no matter how well they may have done in high school AP Lit. And not all English majors are good at grammar. My sister was an English major but couldn't spell worth crap. And that was in the age of the dinosaur before computers, let alone spellcheck. [/quote]

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