I want to riff on this at more length. My current paper-length thinking - I haven't yet implemented it in all of my courses, but I'm slowly doing so - is to pattern the lengths of assignments explicitly off of common article length guidelines in actual publishing 1/6https://twitter.com/jpnudell/status/1440733190281252868 …
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And then I make the connection explicit in the assignment. "In a paper of 800 words [about the length of an op-ed in a newspaper]." 3/6
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Two major advantages I'm trying to get here: 1) shorter papers sharpen writing. Students have to make more decisions about what to say and what to cut, which are important skills in actual writing, both in daily life or in publication. 4/6
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2) by making the connection explicit, I hope to answer that nagging questions students might have as to 'when am I ever going to use them' - a college student ought to think they might one day want to write an op-ed about an important issue. 5/6
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It connects the artificial form they are learning, The College Essay, with the actual forms that we are supposed to be teaching them to be able to produce. Naturally I still make them write it like an essay (footnotes, etc), but at least with a more practical length. end/6
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Addendum: I really, *really* prefer to use word-counts for paper-lengths because 1) that's what publishers, in my experience, actually do and 2) there is less room for students wasting their mental energies trying to find ways to cheese the length system.
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If my professors had taken this approach, I would have been a lot more likely to revise my papers. I doubt anyone enjoyed reading my ten-page rough drafts . . .
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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