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I don't do any of those things...

OR at least, not credit my ideas to other people...

Neither am I...
Or not.

I sometimes can write them, but I am inconsistant. I think it has more to do with topic than anything else for me though.

I need a certain degree of freedom to express anything, and for some reason I hate tell people what to conclude from my writing, like it should be obvious.

2000 words

500 word introduction and thesis statement. This should clearly outline what you intend to argue, or persuade to be the truth.

250 words, first point. Proof of thesis with evidence.

250 words, second point, related to first point, more evidence you are not making up you thesis.

250 words, third point, often the cliffhanger, the most powerful statement that what you are saying is not complete bullshit, though usually, it is.

250 words, fourth point. If you are using less than 250 words per point, you will have a hell of a lot of points to make.

500 words, conclusion. Sometime this begins around 1000 words because you really can't prove anything with the necessary or limited resources you are allowed to use, or maybe the topic is not narrow or specific enough or is too stupid to really have a paper writen about it. Usually, you restate your thesis here, but that should have been so ingraned into the rest of your paper, doing that is more or less a waste of time and energy, but if it is not here, you will lose around 15% of your final mark. This is usually where you can place most of your stongest opinions. This tends to be the best part of a good essay, because you have been waiting to read it since around the origninal thesis and and everything between that and here does not really matter.

I wrote an essay once that had a 1000 word introduction and a 1500 word conclusion.

No one noticed I didn't actually do the body because everything was convered so well in the introduction. It could be argued that I am looking at my essay to linearly, but I really liked that paper.

I never got it back because I finished school before it was marked.

i wonder how I did...

Must have been ok, my grade wasn't overtly terrible... you know, stop doing the readings and such that semester because something kept occupying all of my time even though I usually wasn't even doing anything...

I think near the end, I started to read while I was waiting...

Waiting, paitent...

Yeah, I am pretty patient. Unlike Tarathiel.

Nelphean talked about dragons.

Yes, that has to be one of my less serious entries.

You don't want to know what Kraken do to the digestive system...

The farmers would be happy.

Be mindful of eating elves. They are just as fattening as they are tasty.

Yeah, Lavi is on a diet. He only eats the food he conjurs.