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Guide for Perplexed Students - Tutorial Essays

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A GUIDE FOR PERPLEXED STUDENTS Eric Eve Home Page Harris Manchester College Home Page Guide Contents Next Page Previous Page 4. TUTORIAL ESSAYS (a) How Long should they be? (b) What should a good essay contain? (c) How do I cope with an enormous reading list? (a) How Long should they be? Surprisingly, this is a question on which there seems to be no standard answer. There are, however, two practical constraints. The first is that your tutor will probably ask you to read your essay out loud during the tutorial (though some will take them in and read them in advance). The maximum practicable length that will allow your essay to be read and adequately discussed is about five thousand words. The second is that in order to do justice to the subject and provide yourself with an adequate basis for subsequent revision, the minimum length you can reasonably write is about two thousand words (unless you are an absolute master of concise prose). It follows that somewhere around two

Guide for Perplexed Students - Tutorial Essays A GUIDE FOR PERPLEXED STUDENTS Eric Eve Home Page Harris Manchester College Home Page Guide Contents Next Page Previous Page 4. TUTORIAL ESSAYS (a) How Long should they be? (b) What should a good essay contain? (c) How do I cope with an enormous reading list? (a) How Long should they be? Surprisingly, this is a question on which there seems to be no standard answer. There are, however, two practical constraints. The first is that your tutor will probably ask you to read your essay out loud during the tutorial (though some will take them in and rea

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