Bret Devereaux

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 …

So the short paper is 800 words (fairly standard op-ed or review), the mid-sized paper is 1,200-1,400 words (ye-standard-think-piece) and the Big Damn Research Paper is c. 5,000 words (the Long Form Article). That's c. 2-3, 4-5 and 15-20 pages double-spaced respectively. 2/6

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