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[iai_adept]

My son sent me the following link last night:  www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/12/a_guide_to_grad.html.

As explained in the post, the purpose of the post "is to serve as a guide to young professors about how to perfect their grading skills and as a way for students to learn the mysterious science of how their grades are determined."

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[darth_qonfused]

I heard a similar, though possibly not apocryphal, story that this was how Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch. Specifically, the story goes, he wrote the whole story normally, then threw the unbound manuscript out a 3rd story window. He then walked downstairs and began gathering pages. The order that he picked them up in was the order they were sent to the publisher in...

[iai_adept]

That makes me want to read (or try to read) Naked Lunch.

[slobbit]

That's awesome! I know I'm going to get a great grade on my sociology final, because I filled up all the pages, therefore soaking the paper with ink, and making the pages heavier!

[iai_adept]

Filling up the paper with ink is always a good plan. That way your professor will give you a good grade because 1) it was a quality paper and it was obvious that you put a lot of time and effort into it, 2) because there is so much information they stop reading after the first few pages and give you a good grade assuming you addressed all the paper components, or 3) it flew further down the stairwell than the other papers.