Doctorates that aren't ridiculously writing heavy

[Sagan]

Hmm. That's interesting. I could probably polish off all these different essays I wrote, anonymize some confidential data (for private company analysis) and publish them as research papers? I'm intrigued.

Is anything in life ever that easy? You need a corpus of papers published in scholarly journals, not just a bunch of writing sitting in the proverbial drawer. That's a long, drawn out, uncertain process.

As for your question about Cumberlands, usually not more than an average of five pages per week. You need to show you know what you're talking about, but they're not focused on stratospheric word count. (Although I only took one course at a time, many take two.)

I would hope not. In fact, it is likely they're more interested in an economical use of verbiage. Some schools even provide word limits, like 5K for a paper, 50K for a thesis, etc.