Waffe....

[Drewster]

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

I can do it in 10 (or 7... tulip 8... bollox 10..... OK 13... Ahhhh 14)

[foritisme]

Actually I wrote 175. I will try to keep up as well

[sasguru]

Actually I wrote 175. I will try to keep up as well

Quite likely you're not as clever as you think and you missed some subtlety in the question. So you thought it was simpler than it really was.
Or you're doing a crappy course at an ex-polytechnic.

[EternalOptimist]

there was a competition once to write a story with a beginning a middle and an end in 50 words. the winner went something like this, (from memory so dont pan me)

Susie was exited about the prospect of her wedding. Everyone would be there, her nan, grandad, her sister Joan, 15 years older , all the cousins. Only her mother, who had died bringing her into the world, would be missing.
Joan, I do wish mother could be there.
'She will be'

[foritisme]

Quite likely you're not as clever as you think and you missed some subtlety in the question. So you thought it was simpler than it really was.
Or you're doing a crappy course at an ex-polytechnic.

Maybe I am on the course to learn more. It's actually an OU course in Astronomy.

[EternalOptimist]

Maybe I am on the course to learn more. It's actually an OU course in Astronomy.

surely if you want waffles on that course it should be gastronomy




igmc

[Ruprect]

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 !

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

Quite likely you're not as clever as you think and you missed some subtlety in the question. So you thought it was simpler than it really was.
Or you're doing a crappy course at an ex-polytechnic.

Hate to say it but Sasguru is probably right. You probably haven't considered the question enough and haven't provided a full enough answer.