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Originally Posted by HarlemToTheBronx
At first glance, the thread title made me go
Had me thinking the same thing
Period Trick Appreciation
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Had me thinking the same thing
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Even when teachers assign a 1,000 word assignment per say they don't count for 1,000 words they look if meets the page requirement 1,000 words equates to,which I believe is somewhere between 2-3 pages.
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I don't think it's very hard to estimate how long a paper is in words. If you're shorting it with this period trick and it's only1000 words long, it's going to be pretty obvious.
Besides - a lot of assignments are turned in digitally now, so it's not too hard for them to run word count themselves if they suspect something.
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Well yea it would be ******ed to use the period trick on a short paper. It barely does anything, as is. I guess it depends what college you'reat, because every professor I've had has hated papers emailed to them, and go as far as to not accept them.
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I usually type in 12.5 font
mateen cleaves
Banned
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Originally Posted by HarlemToTheBronx
At first glance, the thread title made me go
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I just did this on a 3900 word paper I have and it bumped it like a quarter of a page lol. I guess it doesn't work that well
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Yea you really don't see much improvement unless it's at least 8 pages.
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I'd still be on page 6 if I didn'tOriginally Posted by TH0MAS CR0WN
I knew you were gonna do it
2 more pages to go
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I used this a lot this year.
For my seminar paper we had to turn in a rough draft digitally like Craftsy was saying. When I saw that I gave the teacher's syllabus a stone face andshook my head. Thank god the finished version required a printed copy.
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Originally Posted by JayHood23
@ me, I thought this thread was about women
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Never even heard of this
definitely going to do this on my next paper
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I still don't get it.
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yep. this is what mine does. not for my english classes, but for my other classes that have papers recently.
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You just make the periods bigger. I just heard about this like a week ago when i was doing my essay but i forgot to try it out.
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Appreciated much!!!! Been using it all semester.
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where was this back in HS :smh
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I never pay attention to page requirements, if I honestly felt I adequately covered the topic a page less than required then i'm not going to BS with theprofessor and tell him straight up.
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This helped me a lot over the past few weeks.
Good thing I'm outchea. Profs are going to start looking at period font sizes and !@++.
Good thing I'm outchea. Profs are going to start looking at period font sizes and !@++.
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shoulda used this back in jr. high and high school...
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-Period resized to 14
-commas to 13
- quotes " to 13
-spaces to 16
-double spacing format, plus a liiiiiil bit. its under the paragraph tab
-commas to 13
- quotes " to 13
-spaces to 16
-double spacing format, plus a liiiiiil bit. its under the paragraph tab
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Some of you are going to get it down to a sentence with some of the tactics you use.
