I think I'm going to have to do that 
I'm screwed.
I'm screwed.
Have you ever submitted a paper under the page-minimum?
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Posts: 2537 (11/22/2009 11:28 PM) |
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Posts: 8285 (11/22/2009 11:30 PM) |
Try this - http://www.ehow.com/how_2265193_period-trick-paper-essay-longer.html
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Posts: 12614 (11/22/2009 11:30 PM) |
I've never even heard of a page-minimum. Did you say what you had to say? Is there any way you could ramble for a bit? |
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Posts: 9708 (11/22/2009 11:30 PM) |
Nope.
Change the size of all your PERIODS to size 14. It will add length to your paper. You can put a period in find and replace 
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Posts: 32582 (11/22/2009 11:31 PM) Most Used Emoticons |
I'm about to.
I have a 5-10 pg paper due to tomorrow and this sucker is about to be 4 1/2. It's such a dry topic, I really can't stretch it
out anymore. It's only worth ten points, though. 
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Posts: 9709 (11/22/2009 11:31 PM) |
sarasum41chasez wrote:Never heard of a page minimum?! How is that possible?! When they say a 3 to 4 page paper, 3 is the minimum
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Posts: 12615 (11/22/2009 11:34 PM) |
musikluvr87 wrote: I've seriously never been given # - # page limitations. I've only ever gotten "15 pages maximum". A lot of the courses I've taken stress the ability to be clear and concise, so that's probably why. |
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Posts: 12616 (11/22/2009 11:37 PM) |
musikluvr87 wrote:I just tried that on a 17 page essay, and it did nothing except make the periods look enormous. It didn't make the essay longer at all.
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Posts: 9710 (11/22/2009 11:41 PM) |
sarasum41chasez wrote: Were you using Times New Roman? Because I don't know how that didn't work if you were using that font. Another font - that may make sense to me
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Posts: 12617 (11/22/2009 11:46 PM) |
musikluvr87 wrote: Oh, nope. Calibri. |
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Posts: 24975 (11/23/2009 12:03 AM) |
Yeah, multiple times and I got full credit. Granted it's only one Professor I do that for. Every week we do like a 3 page paper (unless it's a week we
have a test) on how we agree/disagree with the views of a certain philosopher and often I write like 2 1/2 pages and I get 10/10 on it. He doesn't seem to
mind.
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Posts: 2074 (11/23/2009 12:14 AM) |
Yep. I was SO frustrated with a paper one time right before Thanksgiving break so I submitted it 2 pages short and got an A, thus informing me that the prof
did not read the papers at all because the 8 pages I did write were pure bs. I was so glad that I didn't stress myself to write two more pages. Plus the 8
pages I did write, I did everything in my power to stretch them out. I double spaced after periods and commas, did the "period trick" (thank you
JJB!!!) for both periods and commas, and double spaced between every paragraph which usually profs hate.
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Posts: 1510 (11/23/2009 12:17 AM) |
sarasum41chasez wrote:Yeah, I was always looking for tricks to make my papers shorter to get under the maximum. |
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Posts: 2538 (11/23/2009 12:20 AM) |
I was going to do the period trick, but I'm always paranoid that my professor will know the trick or notice that my paper looks weird or something
It's a 5-10 paper and I only have 4. Blah. |
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Posts: 1511 (11/23/2009 12:31 AM) |
Do you have to submit the paper electronically. Honestly if I was marking papers and worried that people would use these tricks I would just take the
electronic, highlight the entire thing and format it to the required font, size, and spacing...
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Posts: 7718 (11/23/2009 12:36 AM) |
I am so mad that I didn't know about that period trick in school. Like angry.
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tp 09 in the house |
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Posts: 1744 (11/23/2009 12:43 AM) |
Yeah I was supposed to have a 10 page paper and it ended up being 8 pages. But I received an A on it anyway. A teacher would rather have a paper that was a
page or two short if it was really well written vs a paper that had a few pages of bullshit on it. Just read through it and see if you can add a sentence or
two to each paragraph or go through and explain something you've already said with one or two more sentences and call it good.
If I was a professor and saw a student that made a bigger font I'd mark them down for it. |
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Posts: 2012 (11/23/2009 12:59 AM) |
You people are lucky if you get to choose your font and margin size. We have guidelines for those.
I also follow the guidelines because I am afraid of being marked down. |
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Posts: 3374 (11/23/2009 1:03 AM) |
KellySD wrote:Same here once the profs caught on to why we were all using Courier New. |
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Posts: 4478 (11/23/2009 1:22 AM) |
Dylan taught character spacing on here once. It's saved me many times. My teacher now has a word count, though.
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Posts: 32178 (11/23/2009 12:59 PM) Best Celeb Scoop '06, '08, & '09
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In college in grad school I was pretty good at coming up with an extra bullshit paragraph when need be. Glad that stage of my life is over though.
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