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Originally posted by Chill Bill
You know, if there's anything I've learned from CTATAS, it's that writing a little can often be even more challenging than writing a lot.
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I'm entering my third year of university and I find that editing my essays to fit a word or page limit is always harder than writing them
But being able to cut down your writing is a very good skill. You often don't realize it at the time, but when you write with no limit, your actual argument often gets clouded by too much embellishment or beating around the bush (at least that's what I've noticed for myself).
This game has been really helpful for me so far because it's teaching me to pick my strongest points and figure out how much introduction and background information is useful versus how much is unnecessary or excessive.