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    Why do universities encourage waffle !!

    Just had my first assignment back and lost marks because I didn't write the correct number of words. Why do you have to write 200 words on a question when 50 would suffice !

    #2
    Originally posted by foritisme View Post
    Why do universities encourage waffle !!

    Just had my first assignment back and lost marks because I didn't write the correct number of words. Why do you have to write 200 words on a question when 50 would suffice !

    Why do universities encourage waffle !!

    Just had my first assignment back, which is an important milestone for me, especially in the context of my ongoing work/study life balance, and lost some, not a large number, but a significant number of marks because I didn't write the correct number of words. The word significant is interesting, it can mean a very small value, but one that can just about be detected, or a very large value which is over-weening. Where was I? Oh yes. Why do you have to write 200 words on a question when 50 would suffice ! Beats me.





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      #3
      Doesn't bode well, just submitted an assignment asking for 1000 words and finished all the pointless rambling I could in 450.

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        #4
        Why use a large word when a dimunitive will suffice ?
        Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

        C.S. Lewis

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          #5
          Originally posted by foritisme View Post
          Why do you have to write 200 words on a question when 50 would suffice !
          To prepare you for real life when nobody actually wants a real answer to anything they just want enough obfusication bullshine and jargon twaddle to be able to provide a smoke screen that hides the fact that they don't actually know what they are twaddling on about.... if they make it obscure enough they can appear to be knowlegable because the reader spends so long filtering out the dross that the fact that there is no substance underneath the carp is hidden.

          Or (more succinctly)
          Thats Life!!

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            #6
            Originally posted by foritisme View Post
            Why do universities encourage waffle !!

            Just had my first assignment back and lost marks because I didn't write the correct number of words. Why do you have to write 200 words on a question when 50 would suffice !
            The requirement was for 200 words if you only wrote 50 you have not completed the job to the requirements stated.
            If you think you know better than your tutor then why are you doing the course?
            I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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              #7
              Originally posted by Pogle View Post
              The requirement was for 200 words if you only wrote 50 you have not completed the job to the requirements stated.
              If you think you know better than your tutor then why are you doing the course?
              you are still in a bad mood aren't you ?



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                #8
                Okay, what's the minimum number of letters needed to write a meaningful essay comprising 50 words?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                  you are still in a bad mood aren't you ?



                  Is it that obvious
                  I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Pogle View Post
                    The requirement was for 200 words if you only wrote 50 you have not completed the job to the requirements stated.
                    If you think you know better than your tutor then why are you doing the course?

                    No, I wrote 200 words of waffle when 50 would have conveyed the answer. Do keep up.

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