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Nope ... 1000 words of crap is not better than 700 words of good writing.
Crobat
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You missed the point. Quantity is not about blatant word count, it's about relevant content. There is substantial quantity in your essay if your points are relevant and succinct. Thus, quality = quantity.
Quantity with no substance is just waffle. Likewise, quality writing that's only 500 words will naturally lack depth.
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1. How can you gauge the word length of the pieces of writing? Pages? Not a great guideline, but I highly doubt anyone with a strong argument for Mod B would have only had a 600 word essay, given that it's a critical study and there is a distinct lack of critical analysis if your essay is about 600 words (too little has been considered basically).
2. Exemplar responses from the BoS aren't given with marks, just a B 1/2, B 2/3, B 3/4, B 4/5 or B 5/6 . No indication of how high in the bands either.
See this, being one of the only legitimate source of samplars from the BoS directly (there are others updated from the BoS).
http://arc2.bos.nsw.edu.au/view/default/course/15140
I would say 700 words is the minimum before lacking depth, because your intro should be no less than 80 words to be substantial, and your body paragraphs should be no less than 175 with 2-4 quotes in each. But for some people 700 words fits on 3 pages and for others 6 pages (mine would fit on 6 pages for example), so you can't really guess it that well by page lengths.
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Drifting95
Should i change my DP?
What did you get in eng?