Yale says smaller...

limabeans
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:54:10 +0000

If they say they want the essay to be 500 words, why go against their request? I know you think your 850 words is “just right”, but it’s much harder to make it shorter. (A famous writer – forget the author – once said, “Sorry this letter is so long. I didn’t have time to shorten it.”) Yet it almost always improves.