Grad Programs - writing, writing, writing

[lumpylump]

I'll throw in a data point. I have completed eleven courses in my MS program. Four courses required passing a certification exam and seven courses required essays or presentations. The seven courses with writing components had three or four tasks (typically a case study) to be completed and each task required one or two papers. Writing totals for the seven: about 470 pages @ 110 thousand words (statistics courtesy Word and PowerPoint). To be fair, the page count is inflated because the papers were APA formatted (double spacing) and include cover and reference pages. The PowerPoint presentations required extensive speaker notes for every slide, but cover and sectional title slides inflate the page count some.

The "wordiest" course involved case studies in security policy which came in at eight papers totaling 93 pages/18 thousand words. The least "wordy" was a leadership course with four papers totaling 41 pages/9 thousand words.

I'm preparing for my last exam and then have a capstone project to do which should add a couple hundred more pages to the count. Hooray. Sigh...