How many pages for Major? (1 Viewer)

[FreeWorld]

Hey, just wondering how many pages are you expected to do for your major? because apparently its like 20+ pages. How the hell are you going to write that much for 1 question/debate lol, or is half of it the background of your topic?

 

[cem]

The syllabus says it is 2,500 words so 20+ pages is a bit extreme to me.

My students usually do about 8 or so double spaced plus 1 for the synopsis, 3 for the annotated bibliography and usually another 2 - 3 for the full bibliography.

I do expect about 100 plus for the log books - but that includes printouts from the internet and photocopies of stuff from books as well. A couple of kids over the years have exceeded that but they were the outstanding ones not the norm.

 

[Thecorey0]

2500 words may seem daunting now, but once you are into it, it is very limiting in my opinion. I would have preferred a word limit close to Extension II English.

 

[dance2urownbeat]

i just looked back over mine, ah the memories. i had 14 pages all up - 1 title page, 1 synopsis, 8 main argument/essay, 2 annotations, 2 bibliography.

 

[Absolutezero]

cem is correct in saying 2500 words would be around 8 pages.

Try not to worry about the word length, you'll fill it easily.

 

[cem]

as mentioned above, it's a word limit, not a page limit. and the syllabus usually specifies margin widths/appropriate text size and font which will obviously influence the number of pages the work is.

As the History Extension Major Work is internally marked these things aren't specified - only the word limits for each section.

 

[suling]

I'm wondering how I am supposed to fit mine in 2500 words...I don't think it really allows for much in-depth analysis.

 

[philphie]

lol i went way over 2500 words, i think somehwere between 4000-5000 words. just so much i wanted to say. got full marks but because it was over limit didn't bother submitting it to HTA

 

[Thecorey0]

I ended up cutting mine down from 5000 to 3000 words. Easiest way to cut it down is to narrow your focus/question down to something quite specific.

 

[philphie]

mine was very specific, which i broke down to even smaller questions, just had too many photograph examples