Yep, it's the same impulse that made people turn the font size up to 16 and increase the margins as much as allowable and triple-space their essays in high school. It's to make it look like you have something when you don't. Teachers weren't fooled, but maybe the average reader will give them the benefit of the doubt and imagine there's a good essay there
Yep, it's the same impulse that made people turn the font size up to 16 and increase the margins as much as allowable and triple-space their essays in high school. It's to make it look like you have something when you don't. Teachers weren't fooled, but maybe the average reader will give them the benefit of the doubt and imagine there's a good essay there