I see it is entirely possible for a student to write a perfect essay for a class but have it half a page or a page to short. Some teachers are stubborn, and very biased as many of you may already know. But the thing is, people from all over the spectrum of personalities, disorders, and ideals can use this idea. For some, it may be a bad idea to use this, as it could culture a bad habit in the future. For others, it may be a one time thing that people just needed to use for that stubborn teacher. For me, my teacher is 70+ years old and doesn’t even read my paper, just simply checks the length.

All I am trying to get across is you can just come on here and instantly think that everyone here is an idiot for using this *cough* *teachers* *cough*. It is just a simple technique that can be used for good or bad, or for something that will never affect that persons life.

This isn’t cheating, it is simply being smarter than the average bear. Don’t work so hard in life, learn how to make life work for you.

Then everything becomes easier and clear.

You would like to think that college professors don’t put an emphasis on length, but sometimes they have to. At Cleveland State we have something called “Writing Across the Curriculum” which is basically a writing requirement that says you have to write 20 pages in 3 separate classes to graduate. And certain classes are what we call WAC classes, that fulfill those requirements.

I also have never had any problems with line-spacing or offsets or anything like that. I used left-hand alignment on all my papers, MLA format, and everything looks completely normal.

And if you really want to be facetious and talk about using larger font sizes, you need to familiarize yourself with MLA format, or any other standard format for that matter, which requires a specific font, size, and spacing. So setting you font to size 36 and trying to argue that you met the page requirements is a straw man argument at best.

Many people have commented that the student that can be the most concise in making their points is usually the brightest, which I agree is true. But teachers and universities insist on silly requirements and this tip is designed to help those students maintain their concise style while still following directions.