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For History O Level, one had to do a 7,000 word thing about a subject of one's own choosing (subject to approval). The year before, we had to do one as a trial run, though the word count was reduced to 3,500.
It was impressed upon us that the word count was a very serious limit: exceeding it would result in a loss of marks, unless it was clear the every word was justified to give an adequate treatment of the subject. (Of course, falling too far short was also bad; but as much as anything, they wanted to avoid forcing examiners to wade through loads of useless verbiage.)
It was impressed upon us that the word count was a very serious limit: exceeding it would result in a loss of marks, unless it was clear the every word was justified to give an adequate treatment of the subject. (Of course, falling too far short was also bad; but as much as anything, they wanted to avoid forcing examiners to wade through loads of useless verbiage.)
Yes think I had similar... was no easy word processing software in them days to count the words too
It was impressed upon us that the word count was a very serious limit: exceeding it would result in a loss of marks, unless it was clear the every word was justified to give an adequate treatment of the subject. (Of course, falling too far short was also bad; but as much as anything, they wanted to avoid forcing examiners to wade through loads of useless verbiage.)
So for the trial run I chose to write about Norfolk wherries, for various reasons to do with Arthur Ransome's Coot Club having featured one prominently, and there being a couple of books - the only books ever written on the subject at that time - in the local library. They were actually very interesting, to me at least.
So for the trial run I chose to write about Norfolk wherries, for various reasons to do with Arthur Ransome's Coot Club having featured one prominently, and there being a couple of books - the only books ever written on the subject at that time - in the local library. They were actually very interesting, to me at least.
Altho the biggest thing I had to write about was the monkey legend no, no tell a lie, it was the history of the internet without using a computer
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