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Comment author: Desrtopa 18 September 2011 04:27:55AM 1 point [-]

I've often lamented the fact that colleges so frequently assign papers with excessive minimum page limits when they would better serve their students by applying restrictive maximum page limits. Instead of learning to appreciate conciseness as a virtue and a skill, students come away with the association that a piece of writing must be long to be respectable, a lesson which many, it seems, go on to apply in their careers.