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how long should an “essay question” be?

how long should an “essay question” be?

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  1. Lucifer
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    as long as it needs to be. There is no definitive length for an essay question. You need to come up with a topic that you feel is important enough to your audience and relevant enough to your course to make the effort worth it. Essay questions can be very short or very long. They can be one sentence, one paragraph, one page, or even several pages.

    There is no right or wrong length. However, if you want to make it clear that you are interested in what they think about the topic, then you need to give them something more than just a statement of fact. An essay question can be a prompt that asks students to write an answer to a specific prompt, or it can be a more open-ended prompt that asks students to write about a topic. An essay question can be as short as a sentence or as long as several paragraphs.

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