I'm in Perth, Western Australia, which is approximately the same latitude south (31.9505 degrees) as places like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Savannah, Georgia are north. Half of Australia straddles the Tropic of Capricorn, which means half the country is officially in the tropics.
No, it doesn't snow here. There's occasionally snow around the Porongorup mountains down near Albany, when it gets really frosty and chilly, but most of the country doesn't get snow in winter. We get rain - and less rain than we used to.
(I mention the geographic details because I've noticed people from the USA tend to assume Australian cities are on a similar latitude to the northern US rather than the southern US. There's occasionally snow in Canberra, but that's mainly due to altitude, since Canberra is up in the Snowy Mountains; there's occasionally snow in Hobart, because that's the southern-most Australian capital city, but none of the others regularly get snow).
Which is to say: you don't actually have to ask. The first time they tell you something has a 300 word minimum and you submit 10k words is the last time they ever fail to specify a length limit.
Ah, your professors clearly offer different marking criteria to their tutors. This is one of the compulsory first year "How To Be A University Student 101" units, which means what happens if you go over the word limit in this thing is you lose marks. Especially when you've been dinged twice in the preliminary submissions (we were asked to submit a couple of pieces early so the tutors can make sure we're on the right track) for going over the (unstated) word limit... (My first submission was over 1000 words, the second was around the 500 word mark, and both times I got told off for going long). So, editing done, and I not only commented in the "Student feedback" section of the assignment cover sheet about needing a definite upper limit (I'm on the autism spectrum - if you ask me "what do you know?" or "what do you think?" about a topic, I'm going to give you a full and comprehensive brain dump unless you give me an upper word limit) but I'm also going to mention it in the online course feedback stuff as an accessibility issue for ASD students.
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I'm in Perth, Western Australia, which is approximately the same latitude south (31.9505 degrees) as places like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Savannah, Georgia are north. Half of Australia straddles the Tropic of Capricorn, which means half the country is officially in the tropics.
No, it doesn't snow here. There's occasionally snow around the Porongorup mountains down near Albany, when it gets really frosty and chilly, but most of the country doesn't get snow in winter. We get rain - and less rain than we used to.
(I mention the geographic details because I've noticed people from the USA tend to assume Australian cities are on a similar latitude to the northern US rather than the southern US. There's occasionally snow in Canberra, but that's mainly due to altitude, since Canberra is up in the Snowy Mountains; there's occasionally snow in Hobart, because that's the southern-most Australian capital city, but none of the others regularly get snow).
Which is to say: you don't actually have to ask. The first time they tell you something has a 300 word minimum and you submit 10k words is the last time they ever fail to specify a length limit.
Ah, your professors clearly offer different marking criteria to their tutors. This is one of the compulsory first year "How To Be A University Student 101" units, which means what happens if you go over the word limit in this thing is you lose marks. Especially when you've been dinged twice in the preliminary submissions (we were asked to submit a couple of pieces early so the tutors can make sure we're on the right track) for going over the (unstated) word limit... (My first submission was over 1000 words, the second was around the 500 word mark, and both times I got told off for going long). So, editing done, and I not only commented in the "Student feedback" section of the assignment cover sheet about needing a definite upper limit (I'm on the autism spectrum - if you ask me "what do you know?" or "what do you think?" about a topic, I'm going to give you a full and comprehensive brain dump unless you give me an upper word limit) but I'm also going to mention it in the online course feedback stuff as an accessibility issue for ASD students.