Quantity or Quality: Which is better?

Question

My teacher said that if you write more you get a higher grade but i say that it depends how good your writing is. Who is right?

Answer 1

You teacher is the one that decides your grade! You are the student. If you don't write what the teacher wants, you will get a lower grade! That is what you need to think about and remember if you want to graduate.

Answer 2

Quality :

4. high grade; superiority; excellence: wood grain of quality.  

thats one definition from the dictionary.

hand your teacher a dictionary and tell him/her to read.

then tell him/her to find a different career.

quality IS by definition better.

Answer 3

QUAN... Sorry Quality

MICRO

Answer 4

quality

if you wrote half a page of excellent information about lets say philosophy, and someone else just wrote philosophy is .... and just repeat it in different wording to make it 3 pages your would be better

I conclude with, you are right

Answer 5

On my opinion, Quality is better than Quantity.

Answer 6

Practice does NOT make perfect.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

So to answer your question, it takes both to be better.

Answer 7

both!

Answer 8

i think quality is definitely better than quantity but if quality and quantity combined u will get a peace of art

best of luck

Answer 9

quality is more important than quantity, dew to the fact that people evaluate things and I personally do not find any value in quantity, so you are right.

Answer 10

Sarah, I think you're right- I'd say quality is more important than quantity. But it may be that they are both just as important. I'd focus on writing enough to meet the requirements and bump up the mark with the quality of the writing. For the sake of getting a better grade.

Answer 11

I think quality is better then quantity. I should feel it as such because there are such things as ferocious statements that make a book really cruel.

For instance:

I could feel that a couple of minutes ago someone reserved a seat for me at the cathedral.

And:

I was feeling. I felt that someone reserved something for me. I think that someone reserved a seat for me. I felt that someone reserved a seat for me. I think that they reserved the seat for me at the cathedral. I felt that someone reserved a seat for me at the cathedral. It was maybe a couple of minutes ago.

Answer 12

quantity is better than quality

Answer 13

Both. In regards to writing also. Schools are sceptical of short writing, they assume that the writer doesn't have enough knowledge. You can never win.

Answer 14

It depends…

Once I wrote an essay with no mistakes at all but still managed to get an 8/20 because there was not enough words(I wrote about 100 instead of 250-300).

Writing a lot is good as long as you can handle the language and don't go out of the subject.

Answer 15

q u a l i t y .

my english teachers always said writing 8 paragraph essays doesnt mean you're getting a good grade, then would go on to say, "as a matter of fact, I've had some essays that were only 2 paragraphs long, and got 100s"  or something along those lines.

so, uh.

you're right. :)

Answer 16

I think the teacher is hoping that the more you write, the better you get at writing, thus your grades are higher.

I doubt he/she is thinking that you will just mail it in and write three words on each assignment.  I'm thinking he/she believes you will put thought and effort into each assignment which will provide a ton of practice and will make writing not such a burden in your eyes...thus you'll write more, get better, and produce better writing - thus higher grade based on writing more...

But yes, quality is very important as long as your quantity of work meets up with class assignments.  You could write a Shakespeare type essay for the first assignment and skip the next 4 and get an F, or you could probably write boring stories and get C's on each assignment and end up with a C...the better writer is the first example...but the better grade goes to person 2.

Answer 17

Quality should always outweigh quantity.

I could write fifteen paragraphs about why bananas are so great but if they stray from the subject or are misleading then those fifteen paragraphs are meaningless.  If I were to write a single, three to four sentence block properly describing a banana and why I think they are great then it's worth so much more.

Answer 18

Hey ya...

Honestly it is the quality that should matter.

But then when your teacher already said what matters then the same should matter to you as well. Man it's the matter or grades... So go get it instead of debating...

All the best!!!

Cheers!!!