Ken Burch
Jul 29, 2022

A major cause of bad writing habits is minimum word counts on school assignments.

Why do they insist students use at least 500/700/750/1000 words on a particular assignment?

Why don't schools just say "use no more than the number of words you feel you need to use"?

Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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