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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-06-04 04:04 pm

[ SECRET POST #3440 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3440 ⌋

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Re: THIS IS FUCKING HORRIBLE ADVICE, OP. DO NOT TAKE IT! IF YOU DID ALREADY, FIX IT NOW!

(Anonymous) 2016-06-05 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
This. OP, fooling around with margin size is a really old trick and only the n00biest of n00b instructors would actually fall for it. Besides, in order for that to make a significant difference, you'd have to increase your margins by so much that it'll be really obvious to someone who's been grading papers for hours and has many, many examples of papers with correct margins in front of them.

The thesaurus advice is equally laughable. You can't just randomly plug in substitutes from a thesaurus willy nilly. That, too, is an old and obvious trick. A savvy reader will notice that you're using bigger words when shorter ones would do, and they're going to know why. All that padding will be super obvious and embarrassing, because it alerts the reader that this was a rush job.

It's 3-5 pages, and you have a few days. Just take a deep breath, set aside the time to do it without half-assing it and write the paper. And don't procrastinate again.