Another week, another essay, another essay, another all-nighter.
It's starting to get light outside, I have a lecture in five hours, for which I have to leave in three and a half to ensure a timely arrival. I'm trying to expand something that's sitting on just under 1000 words to the required 2000 words. My problem is that I write what needs to be written, and avoid fluff. Academics however, seem to love the stuff. It's giving me the shits. All of my written assessments are between 2000-3000 words. Bleh. I'm gonna go have a shower to sharpen up a little.
It's starting to get light outside, I have a lecture in five hours, for which I have to leave in three and a half to ensure a timely arrival. I'm trying to expand something that's sitting on just under 1000 words to the required 2000 words. My problem is that I write what needs to be written, and avoid fluff. Academics however, seem to love the stuff. It's giving me the shits. All of my written assessments are between 2000-3000 words. Bleh. I'm gonna go have a shower to sharpen up a little.
posted by Sorge @ 5:07:00 am
3 Comments:
At 9:54 am, May 08, 2006,
Anonymous said…
they like fluff?
in our marking criteria there is this part that says "marks will be reduced for waffle"
interesting.
At 10:34 pm, May 08, 2006,
Sorge said…
I call it 'fluff', they call it 'academic language'.
If I can get my points across in a concise manner with sufficient supporting arguments in 1/2 the requisite word count, then why should I be penalised?
At 8:00 am, May 09, 2006,
Lach said…
Because by getting it done in less than the required wordcount you destroy a metric needed to measure students performance in a manner totally unrelated to actuall knowledge.
It's the same in business, quantity over quality every time.
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