Thanks for this reply. In general when I’m reading an explanation and come across a statement like, “this means that...”, as in the above, if it’s not immediately obvious to me why, I find myself wondering whether I’m supposed to see why and I’m just missing something, or if there’s a complicated explanation that’s being skipped.
In this case it sounds like there was a complicated explanation that was being skipped, and you did not expect readers to see why the statement was true. As a point of feedback: when that’s the case I appreciate when writers make note of that fact in the text (e.g. with a parenthetical saying, “To see why this is true, refer to theorem… in the paper.”).
Otherwise, I feel like I’ve just stopped understanding what’s being written, and it’s hard for me to stay engaged. If I know that something is not supposed to be obvious, then it’s easier for me to just mentally flag it as something I can return to later if I want, and keep going.
Thanks for this reply. In general when I’m reading an explanation and come across a statement like, “this means that...”, as in the above, if it’s not immediately obvious to me why, I find myself wondering whether I’m supposed to see why and I’m just missing something, or if there’s a complicated explanation that’s being skipped.
In this case it sounds like there was a complicated explanation that was being skipped, and you did not expect readers to see why the statement was true. As a point of feedback: when that’s the case I appreciate when writers make note of that fact in the text (e.g. with a parenthetical saying, “To see why this is true, refer to theorem… in the paper.”).
Otherwise, I feel like I’ve just stopped understanding what’s being written, and it’s hard for me to stay engaged. If I know that something is not supposed to be obvious, then it’s easier for me to just mentally flag it as something I can return to later if I want, and keep going.