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grabattack

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How long will it take considering i have all the jounals i will need and i have done most of my pre-reading.
It's not a hard or even boring topic, just such a long essay to write for it

Any ideas on time ?

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4 hours? including improvements at the end.

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If you knuckle down you could finish it this evening.

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Depends on the topic, your ability to understand it, your typing speed, your concentration. Too many factors influence it. Just get on with it and get off TSR.

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4 hours? including improvements at the end.

I would go with that, depends on the quality of the content as well I guess.

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More time if you spend it on here asking :P. More seriously, you should be able to knock it out in a day - maybe less if you're feeling particularly motivated and know roughly what you're going to say.
I did 2000 words of a 3000 word essay in about 8 hours the other day but everyone is different and the essay I ended up with wasn't of very good quality.

Edit to add: obviously I am a slow essay writer.

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While we're on the topic, I have a 1,000 word essay but I'm not very good at doing the readings. Any tips? Thanks

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I have till Monday 10AM to write a 3,000 word English Essay. Goodbye.

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i just wrote over 1000 words in just over an hour for a philosophy essay. soo.. it shouldn't take THAT long. you can finish it this evening, definitely.

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Do you need to work out what to write (content and structure) or just write up already planned paragraphs?

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My average is about 1000 words/hour, although I can write faster than this if I know what I'm writing about and I'm really into it. Thank God for MacBook keyboards

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For me, about 25/26 hours.

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Yeah was thinking i have enough time

thnxs all

(Original post by Miss Behaving)
While we're on the topic, I have a 1,000 word essay but I'm not very good at doing the readings. Any tips? Thanks

In answer i'm not really doing a subject that take much reading (Geology) however the little reading i have to do plus the essay journals, i find it easier to do them over a few days rather than read and not take anything in ... it's just one of those things that if u've got it, you will never forget it

Good luck all
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Wow, everyone seems to do essays so quickly. After all the preparation, I tend to take a week to write an essay. But I do mine in little chunks, I get so bored if I do it in large chunks. I'm jealous of people who can do them in a couple of hours though.

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(Original post by grabattack)
Yeah was thinking i have enough time

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Good luck all
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Urgh you lucky thing. I do History and I regret choosing it so much! I didn't realise how much reading there was and how dull it all is. I just feel so overwhelmed by it all. I don't think I'm going to last long in this course if I'm completely honest.

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Depends on you, but I'd say 2 days max, really, if you weren't doing anything else.

Also, 2.5k words is not a lot!

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(Original post by CookieDoughLove)
Wow, everyone seems to do essays so quickly. After all the preparation, I tend to take a week to write an essay. But I do mine in little chunks, I get so bored if I do it in large chunks. I'm jealous of people who can do them in a couple of hours though.

That's what I was just thinking! I don't take a week but I also do it in little chunks too otherwise it just bores me. 1000 words a day is my average atm

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Tbh, doing the reading is the longest part. If you've read your material, taken good notes and planned as you went along, you should be able to write it out in a constant stream.

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Yeah I have to do this too! It takes me about a week - two weeks to do all the reading and research because I get bored so easily, then another week to write the thing.

I had essays coming out of my ears that were due after Christmas and some people had finished them before we broke up. :eek:

I'd barely started the reading, ha. I'm so slow!

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You're asking this question, you're doomed.

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