I never ceased to be amused by the perennial student who assumes I will not notice their 13pt font or the 2.5 spacing, or the extra tenth of an inch on the margins. Of course we notice. We look at hundreds of papers every year.
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I do word-counts for anything sub-1,500 words/5ish-pages, but above that I tend to give page-count guidelines. I've certainly seen students try to spoof the word-count too - using spaces before punctuation, counting footnotes, or just being extra wordy.
It's all pointless though. I'm grading based on the argument being made, the evidence being marshaled. A student who tries to spoof length is just cheating themselves out of space to earn credit.
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In literature class, I hate nothing more than the question of "how much do we need to write?" I always say "as much as you need to". But since, in school where I teach, it's usually their first paper ever, word and page counts are necessary to give them a rough guideline.
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But the page counts in university...I also remember cheating them by just making a lot of empty space, blabbering, etc. If you don't have anything to say, at least don't waste so much of my time...
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BTW, it's Wagenburg not wagonburg ;)
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