Do teachers realize that word requirements on a response will only make the response worse? Its hard to come up with a 400 word response to something that only needs 1 or 2 sentences at most.
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Do teachers realize that word requirements on a response will only make the response worse? Its hard to come up with a 400 word response to something that only needs 1 or 2 sentences at most.
I think that the likelihood of the quality of the answer to become diluted due to the forced and restrictive imposition of it equiring four hundred words is directly equivalent to the nuance of the topic and the context of the request. There probably are subjects where filling in four hundred words would be easy even without making the answer wordy and repetitive like this one where, in case you haven't noticed, I'm actually drawing it out as a joke in order to make it also reach the four hundred word limit you mention. Have you noticed I spell "four hundred" out every time instead of using plain numbers? Well that's because four hundred is two words.
Anyway, I am sure the teacher will have a good reason to request such long answers, perhaps it's to pad out for time or even to make the student think harder about the words they use and the composition of their answer, since a four hundred answer would either need to be separated into multiple paragraphs or risk being a single, unreadable, wall of text; so the student would likely need to remember and apply mutiple writing techniques in order to deliver a presentable piece.
On the other hand, forcing a student (who one might assume would be still a younger individual) to write such long answers might also have the opposite effect and cause them to rely on repetitive statements and unoriginal concepts- perhaps even fall onto plagiarism and the ever popular Wikipedia copy and paste job if they're desperate enough to fill in all the required four hundred words. I am confident that there must be at least some studies that weigh in on the consequences of such teaching tactics and their lasting effect on the psyche and selfsteem of the student, whose brain might be still in development.
Can you believe I have wrote all that and still am missing over eighty words? I belive that four hundred words might indeed be a lot more than what it seems at first, after all this is more of an essay than an answer at this point. Perhaps that's the idea, the teacher wants an essay, and asking for it while describing it as a simple answer is their cheeky way of playing a scholarly joke on their pupils.
Either way, in conclusion: four hundred words is indeed a lot of them.
@Eel That is the best response to such a question.
I still can't believe I had a 250 word essay for gym. I remember using such fancy words to describe my physical condiiton lol
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@blindsquarel Which in turn ruins it right? Word counts are pretty silly, how do you say anymore then you need to say?
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