BUS421 Capstone OL/GS - Which Professor?

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His comments to me "Rather than concentrate on page counts, pay more attention to the depth and breadth of your assignment. Limiting yourself to "x" words or "y" pages will place an artificial limiter on your efforts that may impact the overall quality of your assignments. In other words, free free to deliver an assignment with a length that has allowed you to present your very best responses to the assignment. Less is not always more. Besides, I'm happy to read your submissions, regardless of length."

In other words, he is looking for the rubric, but also looking to see if you are examining the subject and trying to do more than just meet the rubric.

Yes, I agree he is more interested in the content and your analysis of the subject than just trying to meet the rubric.

Each of my papers was like 50% longer than required, but that is because I was purposely being exhaustive in my analysis in order to cover my topics from different perspectives. Mr. Lampman told me that he appreciated my attention to detail and was particularly pleased with my final paper. So if you show that you care about doing quality work, he will see and appreciate it.

I'm sure I probably would have still gotten good marks for meeting the minimum rubric requirements, I think putting in the extra effort allowed me to provide more convincing arguments while helping me to learn and synthesize the material better.

I was the opposite with my case studies, which I very much enjoyed.  I am a very concise writer, and choose to use strong vocabulary rather than extra words to make my point.  I also spend a lot of time organizing my papers, so that the paragraphs do what they're supposed to do, without a lot of superfluous stuff in there. I got 100% on all of them, and all were shorter than required.

I feel like the word count or page length requirements are to give people an idea of what a paper should be - you can be shorter, or longer, but the key is to make your points well, give good evidence to back everything up, and please, be nice to your instructors and check your spelling and grammar.  They will appreciate it.