I decided tonight (this morning) that I have a new standard for judging the length of papers. If a paper takes long enough to print that your computer gets to its screensaver just because of the printing process, you have written too long of a paper.
I kinda had to cheat on my paper tonight. This instructor told us that our paper needed to be 2650 words. Fortunately for me, he did not say if this counted footnotes or not. As word counts can be done either way, I would get to pick which one suited me. Usually my instructors are clear on if footnotes count or not.
If I don't count the footnotes, my paper is 2667 words. Adding the footnotes to my word count would put me beyond the 5% of grace that is given for being either short or long of the word count.
Go Jephthah go.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Have you thought about putting links to your papers on the website so that we could see the assignment, how you responded, and hear what the instructor/class mates thought?
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