Do you like psets more than essays?

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<p>I'm OK with writing essays, but I really dislike how the humanities courses pose length requirements. This is much worse in college; I feel like I can concisely present all my points within a couple pages, but I have to artificially extend them to five or six pages.</p>

<p>Maybe I'm too much of an engineer in making my writing "efficient." Anyone else in the same boat? I hope technical writing classes are much better...</p>

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<p>I agree. I dislike having to pad my work an additional x-pages with nonsense just to meet the length requirement. Considering I’m a former journalism major, I was taught to write as concise as possible whiles still covering all of the points - it’s irritating to have to go in and ramble for another eight pages.</p>

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<p>i like programming better than either of those. lol.</p>

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<p>i actually do like essays. but i don’t like the fact that some of essay grading has to do with subjective measures (if you give the same essay to 10 different english professors, you won’t get the same grade 10 times)</p>

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<p>I know exactly where you’re coming from.I’m in comp 1 now, and I lost 25 points for the first project because I was 30 words short in meeting the word count requirement.The essay itself was perfect, but the word count shortage took a letter grade off.</p>

<p>I don’t see the purpose of having a sufficient word-count requirement.If you have everything stated and supported with details, what more would you need to get your argument across</p>

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<p>This is interesting to hear… I can’t recall one professor of mine who had a strict length minimum requirement. More often than not, there was actually a maximum length, which actually makes it quite difficult to write a paper.</p>

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<p>Yeah that is weird to hear. If you can say what you need to in less words then that is encouraged.</p>

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<p>My professors never put any length restrictions of any kind on any of my work. I tend to be a little verbose sometimes, so this is probably alright.</p>

<p>I’ve turned in assignments ranging from a short paragraph to over a hundred pages. It’s just… whatever it has to be.</p>