👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly little beast of a word – "…doc style." Now, before I get too far into this, let me preface things by saying the origin and exact meaning of "…doc style…" honestly hinges on whoever you ask in certain very specific corners of the internet. It basically boils down to... nobody
truly
knows.
Basically. (Okay, that was a preamble, but there's a lot of preamble needed here.) Here’s what I reckon we can reasonably approximate as the… thing… that it means: Essentially, a "…doc style…" is the almost aggressively nonchalant, slightly cynical, and undeniably sloppy-chic way of presenting information. Think: you've clearly done your groundwork, skimmed some really good stuff, maybe even quoted something once in passing, then just slapped it into a text block without much fuss, probably with a bullet point list that looks suspiciously like it was designed by an aggressively calm sloth. There are layers here. There's a whiff of the academic—it borrows heavily from style manuals and the idea that you should be thorough, but there’s also this weird insistence on not actually seeming to care too much about being perfectly pretty or polished. It is almost wilfully unconcerned with niceties . You feel like someone said, "Okay, let's just get the information out there. Let the reader figure it out
