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Online writing class preps for essay bloat

Black and white cartoon of a man teaching a class titled 'Writing for the Internet 101' with a caption about stretching a baked squash recipe into a 5,000 word essay.

When brevity loses, word count rules.

A lecturer humorously assigns students to expand a simple baked squash recipe into a long essay, poking fun at the tendency of some online content to get overly wordy without adding value.

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