How is courier new acceptable?

[Deeko]

A professor says, your paper must be x pages long in MLA format. Now...don't these professors realize that 5 pages in Times New Roman is about 8 pages in Courier New? I feel so dirty using it...it seems like I'm cheating...but according to the guidelines, it is perfectly acceptable.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

great idea thx. my 4.5 page paper magically hit 5.5, hehe.

 

[thawolfman]

Most of my professors have been specifying no Courier New

(As I continue to put off a 6page single spaced due Tonight (Monday) @ 6:45! :Q )

 

[Anubis]

use it. and when they question you about it. you can stick it to them with proof. ive done that its so great. shouls see the looks on the profs face

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Why would you write a paper in a monospace font? Courier stinks as a monospace font and monospace fonts stink as normal usage fonts, therefore Courier just blows.

 

[Anubis]

monospace?

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Why would you write a paper in a monospace font? Courier stinks as a monospace font and monospace fonts stink as normal usage fonts, therefore Courier just blows.

monospace...?
MLA guidelines allow for Times New Roman or Courier New.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Monospace. As in, a lower case i is exactly the same as an uppercase Q or Z or X. Every letter takes up the same width (aka "fixed width font"). Bring up a dos window and that's a monospace font. Open up a webpage and that's a proportional (the opposite of monospace) font.

In a monospace font, both of these lines would be the exact same length:

....................
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Marauder-]

Yeah - Courier New is just so blatantly obvious. If you're running out of time, you can always do that or do multiple line spacing by doing a 2.1 or 2.3 spacing / also increasing margins - but if you combine it w/ courier new you would have like 25 words on your page. LOL

 

[ScottyB]

Arial is also a little larger without looking like you're cheating.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Arial is also a little larger without looking like you're cheating.

its not MLA though

 

[MeanMeosh]

i love monospace fonts. the same space thing kicks the llama's ass!

 

[Syringer]

Whoa, awesome! I had an art paper that I just couldn't stretch out to the proper page requirement, I ended up using 2.3 spacing.

Courier could've easily done that for me.

 

[tcsenter]

That's why many professors specifiy word counts instead of page counts.

 

[ElFenix]

all my profs knew the tricks to making documents longer than they should be.

 

[yoda291]

I don't know what you people are doing...I often have trouble staying INSIDE word/page requirements on writing assignments. I end up thinning my margins and using like arial narrow on my papers. If I use courier new, it'd take 10 pages to get a cohesive thought out.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
That's why many professors specifiy word counts instead of page counts.

Yeah, word count is much more realistic. I believe the standard is 250-300 words per page, not sure though.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
That's why many professors specifiy word counts instead of page counts.

That's how it was last term...I have a different professor this term, he specifies pages.

all my profs knew the tricks to making documents longer than they should be.

Well, this isn't a "trick" per se, as it is allowable by the MLA guidelines.
Did your professors know the character spacing trick? I used it all throughout high school, no teacher ever caught on.

 

[Marauder-]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: tcsenter
That's why many professors specifiy word counts instead of page counts.

That's how it was last term...I have a different professor this term, he specifies pages.

all my profs knew the tricks to making documents longer than they should be.

Well, this isn't a "trick" per se, as it is allowable by the MLA guidelines.
Did your professors know the character spacing trick? I used it all throughout high school, no teacher ever caught on.

Heh - Leave it to ATOT to "hack" writing assignments.

 

[zCypher]

My professors always specified a word count. I never had the need to do this though. I wrote what I had to write, and that was that. Falling short or long of the word count wasn't really much of a problem, it's how well you do the assignment that matters.

 

[Imdmn04]

you guys are wussies, how hard is it to bs 5 pages of bs? another page or two aint gonna kill ya.