Well, my lecturer seems pretty lenient. I suppose she'll
overlook an extra couple of hundred words. But she certainly won't
stand for 1500 words over the limit.
I'm thinking of dropping a couple of points which are rather
tenuously argued for in the essay. There just doesn't seem to be
any way to make them any more cogent. That should chop off a few
hundred words off the current draft. Doing that, of course, is
subject to the approval of my group members who may protest at
having their handiwork being thrown out.
Elsewhere, I'm doing lots of trimming and summarising. I've also
been compacting long, over-drawn points to be more
straight-to-the-point.
That said, it's still a bit of an uphill task. 
