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Times Newer Roman is a Font Designed To Make Your Essays Look Longer (theverge.com)
Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge: Times Newer Roman, a font from internet marketing firm MSCHF (which you may remember from the Tabagotchi Chrome extension). Times Newer Roman looks a lot like the go-to academic font, but each character is subtly altered to be 5 to 10 percent wider, making your essays look longer without having to actually make them longer. According to Times Newer Roman's website, a 15-page, single-spaced document in 12 point type only requires 5,833 words, compared to 6,680 for the standard Times New Roman. (That's 847 words you don't need to write, which is more than twice the length of this post!)
I followed TFA and the font looks like the author simply increased the size by half a point. If you are trying to make your paper seem longer, it will probably sound like you are trying ot make your paper seem longer.
This will not help, especially if the person grading is paying attention. So what if they accuse you of changing the margins or spacing instead of identifying the actual isssue? You were most likely given a list of acceptable fonts, and Times I'm Lazy was not on that list.
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Based on the posts I think you've made, you'll view anything that doesn't include a specific length guideline (e.g., write an eight page paper) as unreasonable. Your position isn't reasonable and it's inconsistent even with other academic expectations. For example, there's no length guideline on a thesis or dissertation. If you don't provide enough content, your committee will review your work unfavorably. If you add lots of fluff and extraneous content, your committee also won't view that favorably. Are dissertations and theses inherently unfair as well?
I encouraged students to insert pictures inline to make the paper more readable. That alone renders any length guideline meaningless, especially because figures can be expanded or shrunk to meet the goals of the students. I suggested that a paper that was two or three pages was too brief, but that a paper towards 15 or 20 pages would have been unnecessarily long. I just didn't put a specific number on it.
Thorough means they address all the topics on their outline, which I approved. Brief was explained as not adding fluff. I gave them an example along the lines of, if they're writing about a tornado event, they should discuss the conditions for their specific event but they don't need to provide general meteorological background on how tornadoes form. Basically anything that's not specific to their event is unnecessary.
In the real world, you're not looking for your employees to write a certain number of words or paragraphs. Unless you're a publisher where space matters, you'd be a lousy supervisor. Instead, you care that they give you the information you need and that it's accurate. You also don't want them to waste your time on stuff that doesn't matter.
The grading of any paper is somewhat subjective. Unless you're looking for a specific correct answer, it's subjective. The grading of any essay is subjective.
At no point were the students graded on length. They were graded on addressing all of the points in the outline, which they turned in and got approved. That's what being thorough means. Because I reviewed all of their outlines, they were given a specific definition of what that means.
Brevity meant providing information specific to that event, rather than inflating the paper by providing unrelated information or content related to general meteorological processes rather than their event. An example is that you don't need to tell me generally how a tornado forms, just what specifically happened in their event.
It would have been unreasonable to have a length requirement that isn't disclosed to students. They were given guidance along the lines of that the paper should be at least a few pages long, but 15 or 20 pages is almost certainly too long. One would interpret that to be a range of 5-15 pages or so. I strongly encouraged them to be toward the lower bound of that rather than the upper bound, emphasizing brevity. I gave them guidance about length, just not a specific target like eight pages. I specified that it should be single spaced. I asked them to insert pictures inline, and required them to number each one and reference it in the text. But if a paper happened to be 4.5 pages long rather than a full five pages, I wouldn't have taken any points off on the basis of length. If they fully addressed all of the topics, they could have received a perfect score.
I didn't want students to think they had to add fluff to make a paper five pages if they had written a quality 4.5 pages and addressed everything. Educators shouldn't demand eight pages and give a student a poor grade for writing a compelling paper that's only 7.5 pages. That's silly. I consider it a bit like refusing to give a student any credit for an assignment that's due at midnight, turned in at 12:03 AM, and is of high quality.
I didn't include specific details in previous posts to keep my comments relatively brief. To be clear, about the only thing I didn't do is put a specific number on it, such as eight pages. I actually addressed all of this in a lengthy document that was distributed at the start of the semester.