Why do writing
assignments have a page minimum?
To encourage students to write more than they typically
would…to stretch their writing muscles.
To give: bibliophilic professors an evening reprieve, masochistic
professors another way to punish their students, and correction crazed
professors another excuse to experience the intoxicating power pulsating
through their red pens. (Not to debunk
more commonly presented reasons)
Why shouldn’t they?
Results in inefficient space filling to meet requirements. (Promotes
circumloquience)
Not contemporary with today’s form of accelerated
communication (passé )
Promotes poor word choice is it mauve or a light purplish
color (which has more words)
Makes students dread writing (daunting)
Makes reading the essay less interesting even if it’s good
because there’s too much (blasé)
Waste of everyone’s time: writer, reader, grader.
Takes the fun out of writing.
Poetry is the compression of language expansion of meaning (note
the inverse relationship)
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