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watkins wrote:

carsncars wrote:^ 1000 is too much. That's almost the length of the first-year physics lab reports I'm marking.

Thats what? One paragraph. Maybe a page at most? I was writing minimum of two or three pages per lab report back in high school.

Same. But the key is to be concise. It's funny, through my school career, the word count limits go like: 500 (Grade --> 3000 (Grade 12) --> 1000-1500 (First Year) --> 15,000 (Current).

IMO it's harder to write a short report. You have to be concise and to-the-point, and decide which information is relevant and which isn't. Complete data tables are attached; your job is to analyze relevant information. It's a good skill to learn. 3000-word-limits in Grade 12 when only 1500 are really needed make people sloppy--you get phrases like, "In the end, my partner and I were able to conclude, based on our observations, that the absolute temperature was increased by the occurrence of the exothermic reaction." --> "The exothermic reaction increased absolute temperature."

Otherwise when you get to upper years and you really do need 15,000-30,000 words of information, they'll wind up being 60,000 words instead.

carsncars wrote:

watkins wrote:

carsncars wrote:^ 1000 is too much. That's almost the length of the first-year physics lab reports I'm marking.

Thats what? One paragraph. Maybe a page at most? I was writing minimum of two or three pages per lab report back in high school.

Same. But the key is to be concise. It's funny, through my school career, the word count limits go like: 500 (Grade --> 3000 (Grade 12) --> 1000-1500 (First Year) --> 15,000 (Current).

IMO it's harder to write a short report. You have to be concise and to-the-point, and decide which information is relevant and which isn't. Complete data tables are attached; your job is to analyze relevant information. It's a good skill to learn. 3000-word-limits in Grade 12 when only 1500 are really needed make people sloppy--you get phrases like, "In the end, my partner and I were able to conclude, based on our observations, that the absolute temperature was increased by the occurrence of the exothermic reaction." --> "The exothermic reaction increased absolute temperature."

Otherwise when you get to upper years and you really do need 15,000-30,000 words of information, they'll wind up being 60,000 words instead.

We were talking about character count, not word count. Big difference.

94Corolla5Speed wrote:We were talking about character count, not word count. Big difference.

RIGHT. Well, now I feel like an idiot. Thanks.

And besides, short and concise lab reports are so ridiculously easy to write I can nearly shit on a sheet of paper and get an A on one.

watkins wrote:And besides, short and concise lab reports are so ridiculously easy to write I can nearly shit on a sheet of paper and get an A on one.

Either highschool standards have dropped or I'm a hard marker, then. I just gave out about 3 A's in a lot of 60 papers.

Lab reports... the first one I ever wrote during the first-year basic lab course was something like ten pages long.

carsncars wrote:

watkins wrote:And besides, short and concise lab reports are so ridiculously easy to write I can nearly shit on a sheet of paper and get an A on one.

Either highschool standards have dropped or I'm a hard marker, then. I just gave out about 3 A's in a lot of 60 papers.

I went to one of the top high schools in New England, and one of the better scientifically-oriented liberal arts college in the country.
Theyre just fantastically easy to write if you have half a brain

watkins wrote:I went to one of the top high schools in New England, and one of the better scientifically-oriented liberal arts college in the country.
Theyre just fantastically easy to write if you have half a brain

Scientifically-oriented liberal arts college. I'm not sure we have an equivalent in Canada. Here it's either technical college, college, university-college, or university (take your pick of small, medium, large). All the universities have essentially the same quality of education at undergraduate level, and many of the university-colleges are on par--just with a different approach to teaching.

But mostly, I'm just waiting for the image resolution checker to be fixed so I can have a shiny signature like yours.

watkins wrote:Theyre just fantastically easy to write if you have half a brain

What if you're not limited to half a brain? Like, what if you've got a whole brain?

Lets hope you know how to use it

off topic blawls.

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Oh bloody f**k hell... Not this bullshit again...

x 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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