This shit is horribly transparent to anyone who has ever graded papers and isn't a completely lazy mother****er.

Who in the **** were your teachers?

Someone well versed in sarcasm?

You ever notice when all the periods are size 14 font? That can add length and it's the only way I can recall that isn't completely noticeable.

That's one I've never looked for, but given that they look all emboldened, it would look weird, especially if the student didn't print it out on an ink-jet.

It never ceases to amaze me how many dumbasses think that spacing their papers at 2.1 or 2.2 isn't completely obvious.

Given that I follow MLA for all submissions, and I take rough drafts electronically, the easiest way to see if someone has ****ed with the paper is to first select all and then change it to Times 12 point, as that's what it needs to be for standards, anyway.

For those 50 pagers...do they actually read every page? Really...WTF? I would imagine TAs would go crazy if they had a stack of 50 page essays to grade.

You're a english professor?

yeah got a 88% on my 5 pager today. would have been high 90's had I not forgot in-text citations. no big deal really.

Wow...if students make no attempt to cite anything in the text, most profs won't even pass them.

50+ page papers are going to be capstone papers in smaller classes, usually seminars, and will be read by a professor, not a TA.

Junior college/lower level classes.

I haven't/won't use those methods for my upper level classes.

I'm definitely a procrastinator, wrote a 10-page history term paper in one night last year, ended up with a 90/100 on it.

As for your paper, if all else fails, print this off & turn it in:
http://www.tiglo.co.uk/images/essay.jpg

LMAO

And still got a 61%

Passing grade, FTMFW.

I'll write anyones paper if they take this Political Communications class for me. Jesus I can't read this ****ing book.

Less than an hour left and I need only a page and a half or so. **** page requirements, I'm a content guy.

DISCUS