Last night dd1 (in year 8) had a history debate to write. She had to write: Introduction, her opinion, argument for, argument against, conclusion.
She'd done the research, knew her opinion... but it took her over 2 hours to write just over 500 words.
She likes everything to be perfect so reads, rereads, checks etc.
That evening I expressed surprise to dh that she had taken so long over it, I would have expected her to be able to do 700-800 words in an hour-in that situation I can do around 1500. (but not a perfectionist!)
Dh (v. intelligent, but also a perfectionist) said he thought it would take him about that long, or longer to do 500 words on a subject like that.
She's having problems keeping up with homework, and I was going to talk to her about working quickler after last night. Checking at the end rather than regularly all the way through.
However I'm not sure whether I have unrealistic expectations on how quickly she could be aiming to write.
But if dh is right... then the history teacher was setting unsuitable homework-it was meant to take maximum an hour and cover roughly one side of A4.
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How long to write 500 words?
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DeWe · 04/12/2013 11:08
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