2007-04-21 19:27:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
That sounds a hell of a lot...I would suggest Edit..Edit..Re-edit..eliminating any chaff.
2007-04-21 19:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by kit walker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's often better to cut parts of your introduction, which is where many people ramble on too much. Also, make sure that the body of your text is succinct and doesn't stray from the focus of your paper. There should be a good balance, but obviously your actual data/analysis will take up more room. Some people don't believe it's possible to cut that part down, but many times you can identify entire sentences that are not necessary - so use a good thesaurus.
Depending on what it is that you are writing about, many academic papers fit a certain pattern, which can be helpful to you when deciding what to cut. I won't get too technical, but these patterns have been identified and explained in detail by Eugene Winter, Malcolm Coulthard, Michael Hoey...and many others in linguistic analysis of texts. The main pattern is known as SPRE (Situation or Setting - Problem - Response - Evaluation).
This basic pattern can be found in many types of texts and in basic terms spells out what is most important for your text. For yourself, ask and then answer the following questions, which you should see develop in your paper. If you have too much of any part, or a part is missing, you need to evaluate the balance of your paper in order to make it more succinct. Here is the basic pattern in question form:
(S) - Situation or setting: What was the situation or the setting?
(P)- Problem: What was the problem or question to be answered in the paper?
(R) - Response: What was done to try and solve the problem or how did you collect data, or conduct the experiment, etc.?
(E) -What were your conclusions or what was the outcome?
Most important though....keep the focus and delete things that would not be absolutely necessary to answer the questions. Professors like succinct, not ramble.
Hope this helps and best of luck!
2007-04-21 20:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by KerryA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it means you would have to delete important statements that would take away from the material presented, I would just leave it like it is.
Explain to the teacher that there was no way you could meet the word quota without losing the intended point of the essay.
I highly doubt anyone will even notice. And, shame on the teacher that punishes you for doing too good of a job.
2007-04-21 19:33:26 · answer #3 · answered by lost_but_not_hopeless 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-28 16:19:28 · answer #4 · answered by boamah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Analyze every sentence 2 c if there's any unnecessary words. Or any phrases that could be minimized. I have a journalism degree. I know how 2 fit things in required space. Send it 2 me, I'll see what I can do.
2007-04-21 19:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by Jynn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i need to do this i reread the essay and cut out the parts that i feel are not that necessary, its hard because you wanna leave everything in there but its duable.
good luck
2007-04-21 19:31:01 · answer #6 · answered by jm 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Consolidate.
2007-04-21 19:36:11 · answer #7 · answered by surffsav 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure your intro and conclusion aren't too wordy...often times, we repeat too much in those areas.
I would have to read your essay to be able to edit it.
2007-04-21 19:41:33 · answer #8 · answered by gg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take the 1st 3 pages ov ur essay n just hand them in,easy.ask me another
2007-04-21 19:33:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do not include too many adjectives.
2007-04-21 21:09:09 · answer #10 · answered by sunshine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋