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Minimum page requirements for essays and papers dont reinforce brevity in writing. They do the opposite, a way to be flower-y and add cruft. Minimum page requi
by namelessoracle 4y ago
Minimum page requirements for essays and papers dont reinforce brevity in writing. They do the opposite, a way to be flower-y and add cruft.
Minimum page requirements are often the bulk of your grade in non stem. If you wrote the minimum pages, followed the style guide given to you, used mostly correct English, and followed citation guides. You will get a passing grade. It encourages finding a bunch of sources that back up your point ad nauseam, and paraphrase them repeatedly.
- jakelazaroff 4y agoDo you have a source for this? Because, anecdotally, I know a lot of teachers and professors and none of them grade that way.
- namelessoracle 4y agoMy source is "going to college" and "seeing what my peers wrote" when they asked me to help them proof read, and me seeing my paper get a 100, and their paper getting 70 despite being nonsense. (because the grading rubric rewards heavily following the process) I am sure that you have watched a teacher grade 50+ 10 page papers in the span of a week and heard their rational behind each grade though. Having graded some of those papers when being a TA, its all about the rubric, not the content, and most of the rubric is stuff like "Did they follow formatting rules? Did they hit page requirement? Did they have correct citations? Did they follow citation format?" Because not having a space in the wrong place during their works cited page is super important, but writing utter nonsense? Eh. Stuff like "the content" is sometimes low as 10 points on the paper. Usually about 20.