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Originally Posted by Tchocky
It took me most of my first year of uni to get rid of that habit, it's a tough one to break.
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Whom you tell!
I wrote very good free essays at high school both in German and English, usually only A and B grades - the only "themaverfehlung" (missed subject) I have ever produced in my school life at school was during the final Abitur-paper (=final exams) in English, the very last paper I ever wrote for school. - "E".
And at university, the final written diploma report I wrote together with a girlfriend, we had to restart again from scratch and with a new topic - after having spend 5 months on the old one, because I managed to bring us into a plethoray of distracting details until we did not had any clear understanding anymore what our project originally had been about and the supervising prof threatened to give us a "fail". Learning that frustrating lesson inside out, the new work became much better, "A".
If there is one golden rule for written works at university, then this: stay on topic, and keep the line of argument simple.