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Friday, November 24, 2006
Limit your word count when making a point
lifehack.org: "Less words have more chances for recipients digesting the idea completely."
however it can be hard sometimes because the education system trains us to bull shit. we are taught to use big words and detail and we are given quotas on number of pages. I don’t know how many times in high school I could have written a great paper and said what I needed to say, but had to add all this extra crap just to make it long enough so my teacher would not mark me down.
Sometimes it feels like giving a short answer will leave space for error so I try to write longer ones. In the end, the extra words end up hurting my response. Sometimes, however, I still feel more in depth answers may be needed to answer a question fully.
I agree with Dana. Many people ask for short responses but if you are concise, they will feel that´s not enough. Many people are great in talking without saying anything. The problem is that some people like that and grade them higher... so we all end up saying little in many words.
The act of writing more words than necessary is deeply inbedded in my mind (and i would be daring enough to say, most of society) Even though i can think of three examples this academic year where saying more than necessary actually came back to bite me in the ass, I find that from past academic experience, saying things fully explained and fully fleshed out is helpful more often than not. And even in drama, differnet teachers say different things about my writing style, everything from verbose to thorough.
4 comments:
this is so true.
however it can be hard sometimes because the education system trains us to bull shit. we are taught to use big words and detail and we are given quotas on number of pages.
I don’t know how many times in high school I could have written a great paper and said what I needed to say, but had to add all this extra crap just to make it long enough so my teacher would not mark me down.
Sometimes it feels like giving a short answer will leave space for error so I try to write longer ones. In the end, the extra words end up hurting my response. Sometimes, however, I still feel more in depth answers may be needed to answer a question fully.
I agree with Dana. Many people ask for short responses but if you are concise, they will feel that´s not enough.
Many people are great in talking without saying anything. The problem is that some people like that and grade them higher... so we all end up saying little in many words.
Laura Prieto García
The act of writing more words than necessary is deeply inbedded in my mind (and i would be daring enough to say, most of society) Even though i can think of three examples this academic year where saying more than necessary actually came back to bite me in the ass, I find that from past academic experience, saying things fully explained and fully fleshed out is helpful more often than not. And even in drama, differnet teachers say different things about my writing style, everything from verbose to thorough.
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