Super strict word limits on term papers make me cranky...

[bicentennial_baby]

So I'm working on this paper that's due tomorrow (long story as to why it's not done already), and it has a minimum word count requirement of 3,000. Literally. As in, if your paper is 2,999 words, you get an F.

Grrrrrr. Just wanted to get that out. Blah. x(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. ugh!

sounds awful

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Yeah, pretty much...I'll manage, just irritates me

:)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. it woudl have driven me nuts. i am a very concise writer and generally

write way below the word limit

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I don't know which I dislike more...A minimum limit or a maximum.

We had an assignment recently (same class) that was 3 essays of no more than 500 words each. Challenging, but I aced that. I try to be very concise when I write...But, I suppose I can flip the "extremely verbose" switch on for the rest of the day. I'm almost at 1,000 so far.

:)

[Fox Mulder]

5. I've never understood why some professors choose to use...

the minimum word requirement.

There can really great papers written with fewer than the required minimum amount.

[DS1]

6. End it with a simple "9/11"

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Hmmmm, how to work that into a paper on

"The Affluent Society"...Interesting :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. so what is the paper about? when i have to bloat a paper, i start comparing

cross culturally..

[bicentennial_baby]

9. It's basically a paper on Galbraith's

"The Affluent Society" and the relationship between the American economic and social systems over the course of capitalist development. Exciting, eh? :P

My Prof is my Dept Chair...and he expects a lot. Hardest Prof in the Dept, of course. Greta teacher though, otherwise.

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. so will he actually count each and every word on the page?

If so that seems like a ridiculous waste of time...on second thought, he'll probably just get a TA to do it :P