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E10 Danny Hatcher: How Anyone Can Navigate Academic Research

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What Is the Point of an Essay at University?

Danny's first draft of his undergraduate dissertation was 123,000 words. He hated the word count and had to cut it down from 20,000 to 3000. When you leave university who will read your essay? If there isn't a point to the essay, don't write it. This is like how in the world do I fit this into a 10 hour video? Danny talks about making what he calls 'the most difficult essays' on YouTube.

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