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Your Famous Essay 04 Jul 2007, 13:35
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Anybody think theirs was brilliant?

This notice in an e-newsletter I got from the Duke graduate student association or some such.


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Your Famous Essay 05 Jul 2007, 13:20
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Everything I do is brilliant, so yeah, I suppose my essays were brilliant. :lol:

Actually, I felt my essays were straightforward and to the point, answered the question, balanced the examples I used for each reply and that was it. That seemed to work out fine for short essays (400 - 500 words) but not so much for longer ones (such as Stanford's 4 pages guideline).

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Your Famous Essay 05 Jul 2007, 16:12
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They're going to have to pay me a heck of a lot more than $50 to get me to look at those d@mn essays again.
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Your Famous Essay 06 Jul 2007, 01:34
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Actually, I felt my essays were straightforward and to the point, answered the question, balanced the examples I used for each reply and that was it. That seemed to work out fine for short essays (400 - 500 words) but not so much for longer ones (such as Stanford's 4 pages guideline).

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First time I saw Stanford's 4 page recommendation, I thought someone was taking the piss.
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Your Famous Essay 06 Jul 2007, 06:52
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Actually, I felt my essays were straightforward and to the point, answered the question, balanced the examples I used for each reply and that was it. That seemed to work out fine for short essays (400 - 500 words) but not so much for longer ones (such as Stanford's 4 pages guideline).

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First time I saw Stanford's 4 page recommendation, I thought someone was taking the piss.
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LOL. One of my recommenders wrote an 11 page rec.
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Your Famous Essay 06 Jul 2007, 11:42
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11 page recommendation! What did he/she write about ? After 10 pages, it must be pretty much down to your underwear size :).

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Actually, I felt my essays were straightforward and to the point, answered the question, balanced the examples I used for each reply and that was it. That seemed to work out fine for short essays (400 - 500 words) but not so much for longer ones (such as Stanford's 4 pages guideline).

L.

First time I saw Stanford's 4 page recommendation, I thought someone was taking the piss.

LOL. One of my recommenders wrote an 11 page rec.
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