Has this happened to Oppo?

"Alex B" (alexb420) 10/14/2014 at 17:19 • Filed to: None

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I wrote a long essay for school and the teacher says it's too long and that I have to write a new, shorter one. I was just like:

Usually teachers tell you to write longer things.

MIATAAAA > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:20

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It hasn't happened to me, but it happened to my best friend in college a lot. We'd get an assignment for 10 pages or something, then she would write like 19 pages.

It was frequently frowned upon.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:21

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Last week, my AP Language teacher made me write a paper all over again from scratch. It was too long according to her. She also told me that I write too much like an adult.

Leon711 > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:22

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Word limits at University. What Bullshit.

Alex B > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 17:22

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Really? Oh the education system these days. And the fact that you live in Florida might have something to do with it...

area man > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:24

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You have a good teacher. It's easy to ramble for pages; it takes a lot more skill to make your argument cleanly and concisely.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:24

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Ive seen a cayenne limo in the flesh. It was a 2010 though. I hated it

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:25

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I had way more trouble keeping my college essays down to a maximum limit, rather than meeting a minimum requirement.

area man > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 17:25

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Too long is a valid criticism - brevity is a lost art.

DrJohannVegas > Leon711 10/14/2014 at 17:26

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1) Longer essays are not always better. Being able to make a point concisely is an important skill. Many long essays are unfocused, especially when the prompt is usually written with the length of essay in mind. 2) Essays are tasks. Tasks have objectives. The sooner you get your head around the idea that limits are part of the task, the better. 3) Grading a stack of over-length essays is a huge time sink for instructors. There is one of them, and many of you (students). Think of what would happen if everyone ignored the limits.

Alex B > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 10/14/2014 at 17:28

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I've seen a few. I think they are okay.

DailyTurismo > area man 10/14/2014 at 17:28

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No it isn't.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:28

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Thanks, Florida. She tells me that I'm too mature for my age and that my fancy vocabulary is unnecessary. I'm actually doing AP Language homework right now.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > area man 10/14/2014 at 17:30

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It was 1154 words with the bare minimum of 1000 words. It wasn't even the longest in the class.

area man > DailyTurismo 10/14/2014 at 17:31

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Yes.

area man > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 17:34

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I had papers in college rejected for being 20 words above the limit. It's there for a reason - I guarantee you could have trimmed at least 150 words from that without losing anything important.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:34

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I did. It was a topic that really got me going I think it was on ebola or some disease maby rabies IDK but it was supposed to be 3 paragraphs I wrote 3 pages.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > area man 10/14/2014 at 17:35

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It's a limit for the minimum amount of words. All I did was delete 2 sentences and rewrite a couple of other ones. I still got a 100.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:38

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Ha! Not once did that ever happen to me, mine were usually the absolute minimum. Sometimes if it was a 10 page assignment, I'd only have one word on the tenth page because the professor never said "ten full pages."

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:39

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As an engineering student, my tutors want everything to be a concise report of what has been learned or observed so yes all the time. If it has more words than are needed to convey a point or data, it'll be asked to be cut down. I've heard similar things are expected of med students since people just want a run down of what's going on and nothing more.

area man > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 17:43

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I can't read, apparently.

Leadbull > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 17:45

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The point is that you should be concise.

No one likes to read rambling.

Alex B > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 10/14/2014 at 17:47

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This is true.

Alex B > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) 10/14/2014 at 17:47

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Haha, this is how my older brother gets through his writing assignments.

Alex B > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic 10/14/2014 at 17:48

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I hate when this happens.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) 10/14/2014 at 17:48

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You're so clever.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Leadbull 10/14/2014 at 17:50

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I learned that lesson the hard way. I currently make my essays concise and get straight to the point with little or no excess. You learn from your mistakes.

treesmakewater > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 17:52

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it is good to "dumb down" writings occasionally. You should always write with your target audience in mind

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 17:54

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Been there. Not often, but once or twice.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > treesmakewater 10/14/2014 at 17:59

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It's not really that fancy. I write with the same words that I speak with. She encourages said vocabulary. When I use it, it's bad, but when others use it, it's good. Words such as atrocious and detriment.

treesmakewater > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 18:09

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gotta love highschool

Jagvar > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 18:13

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If the teacher doesn't feel like reading that much, he or she should just scan the first page and give you an "A." Simple as that.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 18:46

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I want to buy this and drive it to every Porsche owner's club event and track day and watch all the Porsche purists lose their rear-engined minds.

mcseanerson > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 10/14/2014 at 18:52

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Would a Cayenne donk do better because there was a guy on my commute who drove one and it always made me tilt my head a little.

Alex B > mcseanerson 10/14/2014 at 19:31

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I've never seen a donk cayenne

mcseanerson > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 19:37

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It's the weirdest thing.

The Compromiser > Alex B 10/14/2014 at 23:02

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I got thrown out of religion class for playing a gameboy once. Same teacher also let me play The Commitments movie because it was about Catholics in Ireland. Lasted about half an hour before she pulled it (and sent me to the office). Dumb as a post. Hot with huge.... but dumb.

In case you haven't already figured it out, no is my answer to the question.

Axial > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/14/2014 at 23:24

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Your teacher ought to be slapped for that second statement.