I have personally developed a habit of checking the length requirement of every paper assignment I recieve before I focus on anything else related to the assignment since high school. This is not a surprise because intuitively, the longer the requirement is, the more time you have to dedicate to finishing the assignment. However, in reality, the length of a written work does not guarantee its quality. This is a common misconception in writing.
It should be clear to us how this conception came to be. Most writing assignments we receive do have length requirements. If one’s work does not meet the minimum length requirement, expect one’s grade to be reduced as a penalty. What is more concerning is when a student receives a pardon, an inflated grade, for their poorly-written paper merely because it meets the minimum length requirement, a common practice in early composition courses in elementary and middle school. This practice is detrimental because it instills the idea that the quality of a written work directly coresponds with its length.
It is true that there are numerous papers that are …show more content…
Minimum length requirements has produced countless usage of “empty words” that do not transmit any useful information or serve any other purpose in too many written pieces. This is a phenomenon that makes written ideas seem more convoluted than they really are to readers. Furthermore, for people who actually understand this misconception, these empty words will also make any essay less persuasive as they are able detect the author’s language redundancy and lack of meaningful
It should be clear to us how this conception came to be. Most writing assignments we receive do have length requirements. If one’s work does not meet the minimum length requirement, expect one’s grade to be reduced as a penalty. What is more concerning is when a student receives a pardon, an inflated grade, for their poorly-written paper merely because it meets the minimum length requirement, a common practice in early composition courses in elementary and middle school. This practice is detrimental because it instills the idea that the quality of a written work directly coresponds with its length.
It is true that there are numerous papers that are …show more content…
Minimum length requirements has produced countless usage of “empty words” that do not transmit any useful information or serve any other purpose in too many written pieces. This is a phenomenon that makes written ideas seem more convoluted than they really are to readers. Furthermore, for people who actually understand this misconception, these empty words will also make any essay less persuasive as they are able detect the author’s language redundancy and lack of meaningful