How long does the essay need to be? This is always a popular question from students. The answer is at least seven paragraphs long. A typical paragraph in college is 100 to 200 words. Let’s say that your introduction and conclusion paragraphs are closer to 100 words, and your main point paragraphs are closer to 200 words. This means that your final essay should be approximately 1200 words. Let’s set the guideline as a range. Please keep your essays to between 1000 and 1400 words. Shorter essays probably mean you didn’t have enough to say about the topic. Longer essays probably mean that you chose a topic that was a bit too large. Remember, have at least five sources and 1000 to 1400 words. “Beginning in the mid-1940s Hollywood dispatched a new cycle of crime dramas, cinematic tales of murder, gift, violence and mayhem. Weak, passive men and conniving, tough-talking women inhabited this film genre, loitering the streets of dangerous, dilapidated and very dark cities.
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