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  • Ruprect
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    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 !
    Originally posted by Smurficus View Post
    Doesn't bode well, just submitted an assignment asking for 1000 words and finished all the pointless rambling I could in 450.
    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    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.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by foritisme View Post
    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


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  • foritisme
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    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.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    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'




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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by foritisme View Post
    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.

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

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  • Drewster
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    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)

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  • foritisme
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    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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  • Pogle
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    you are still in a bad mood aren't you ?



    Is it that obvious

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

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  • EternalOptimist
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    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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  • Pogle
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    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?

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  • Drewster
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    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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  • Board Game Geek
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    Why use a large word when a dimunitive will suffice ?

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  • Smurficus
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    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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