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Paper Writing Tip - Ryan T - 03-09-2007
I found this earlier today on another forum and gave it a try on a few of my old papers and it did lengthen them. If you've got one of those papers that you just can't seem to make as long as the professor wants, give this a shot.
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- Hunter - 03-09-2007
My thesis just got 10 pages longer... although i haven't started writing it.
- ScottyB - 03-09-2007
that's fantastic....i'm pissed i didn't know about this back when i had to write a bunch of stupid 10 page art history papers
- CaptainHenreh - 03-09-2007
ScottyB Wrote:that's fantastic....i'm pissed i didn't know about this back when i had to write a bunch of stupid 10 page art history papers
+1
But I should have thought about it.
- WRXtranceformed - 03-09-2007
That is tight!!! I wish I had known that when I was still in school =(
- Hunter - 03-09-2007
OK, I just went back and tried that on a paper I wrote earlier this semester. By replacing the periods and the commas it changed from 16 pages to a full 20 pages, why am I just learning this now.
- Apoc - 03-09-2007
...or you could just change the line spacing to 14pt... which is what this is effectively doing. You guys never messed with line spacing to make papers longer?
- white_2kgt - 03-12-2007
lol, I use to make my own fonts and adjust the kerning to space the letters out from each other just a little. That's what happens when you make a CS major take a history class...
- Mike - 03-12-2007
Apoc Wrote:...or you could just change the line spacing to 14pt... which is what this is effectively doing. You guys never messed with line spacing to make papers longer?
yeah, imo it wouldn't be too hard to notice the difference in size between 14pt lines and 12pt lines.
- WRXtranceformed - 03-12-2007
Or you could just be smart enough and write papers that are legitimately as long as they needed to be.
Ha ha ha, actually.. I'm very jealous that I didn't utilize ninja tactics such as these. Even as a complete stoner (yes... 1400 SAT completely and utterly stoned out of my face) I did manage to hold it down without undercover tactix such as these.
- HAULN-SS - 03-12-2007
as a math/cs major, i dont think I ever wrote any paper longer than 10 pages. I did however have to write several proofs that were many pages long, and I'm sure harder to write than a research paper.
- Apoc - 03-13-2007
Mike Wrote:Apoc Wrote:...or you could just change the line spacing to 14pt... which is what this is effectively doing. You guys never messed with line spacing to make papers longer?
yeah, imo it wouldn't be too hard to notice the difference in size between 14pt lines and 12pt lines.
Especially when the teacher has ~30 pages to compare side/side.
"Hey... why is the spacing on Johnny's paper all messed up? FFF!!!"
Some of my teachers used to just require a specific word count. There's no getting around it with spacing, margins or font size that way.
- white_2kgt - 03-13-2007
Apoc Wrote:Mike Wrote:Apoc Wrote:...or you could just change the line spacing to 14pt... which is what this is effectively doing. You guys never messed with line spacing to make papers longer?
yeah, imo it wouldn't be too hard to notice the difference in size between 14pt lines and 12pt lines.
Especially when the teacher has ~30 pages to compare side/side.
"Hey... why is the spacing on Johnny's paper all messed up? FFF!!!"
Some of my teachers used to just require a specific word count. There's no getting around it with spacing, margins or font size that way.
you probably never had that problem, just used a lot of really, small words right :lol:
- HAULN-SS - 03-13-2007
haha....i actually thought the same thing - cause i'm sure they just counted the words on a random line, and then multiplied that by the line count - unless you had to submit the e-copy.
- white_2kgt - 03-13-2007
HAULN-SS Wrote:unless you had to submit the e-copy.
That's when you tell the prof that you write your papers in AbiWord and he will have to come to the computer science building's UNIX lab to open it :lol:
or you could be like my dumbfuck roommage freshman year and write your papers on a word processor :roll:
Fucking dot matrix piece of shit printing out 30 page religion papers.
- Apoc - 03-13-2007
Well... not to date myself here... but my school didn't even have broadband my freshman year.
- HAULN-SS - 03-13-2007
Dude! You had a mage for a roomie? Those probably werent religion papers, they were probably spells and curses! Did you have anything bad going on, not being able to hook up with the ladies, or shoes coming untied all the time or something? I bet this explains it!
- white_2kgt - 03-13-2007
HAULN-SS Wrote:Dude! You had a mage for a roomie? Those probably werent religion papers, they were probably spells and curses! Did you have anything bad going on, not being able to hook up with the ladies, or shoes coming untied all the time or something? I bet this explains it!
Me? My roommate was a religion major, he was a senior and the RA, he ended up becoming a priest...
- HAULN-SS - 03-13-2007
white_2kgt Wrote:my dumbfuck roommage freshman
- HAULN-SS - 03-13-2007
white_2kgt Wrote:roommage