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Times Newer Roman is a new font to make academic papers appear longer.
Times Newer Roman is designed to add length to any academic paper that has page requirements and also requires the use of Times New Roman.
[...] This means that a paper of given word count will have more length when rendered in Times Newer Roman instead of the old Times New Roman—hopefully without being noticeable to whoever's job it is to grade the paper.
Bigger and therefore better academic papers help advance the state of the art.
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Times Newer Roman Font Makes Academic Papers Look Longer
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(Score: 1) by EEMac on Thursday September 20 2018, @01:34PM (5 children)
A lot of professors will require something like 12 point Times New Roman. 13 point Times New Roman is relatively easy to spot because of the number change. 12 point Times Newer Roman makes your paper longer, and there's a chance they won't notice the subtle change in the font name.
I don't approve of the cheating aspect, but there's some ingenuity here.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 20 2018, @02:10PM (4 children)
I don't like the cheating either. But I find the ingenuity amusing.
Maybe make the font name much closer. Make the font name *look* like Times New Roman, but using unicode characters whose glyphs resemble English alphabet characters.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by shipofgold on Thursday September 20 2018, @04:41PM (3 children)
If professors want to thwart this, simply ask for a 6500 word paper instead of a page count.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 20 2018, @05:15PM (1 child)
It would be better for students to be proud of their level of mastery of the subject and be happy to demonstrate it, rather than their ingenuity in cheating.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @06:06PM
I've found it an interesting attribute of growing up, like how attitudes towards snow change.
Child: "How can I write a 100-word book summary? That's so many words!"
Teenager: "I need to write a 2000-word book summary. How am I going to fill that space?"
Adult: "You need me to write a 5000-word contract proposal about why my company is the best? How can I possibly get my word-count that low? Can I please have another 3000 words to use?"
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday September 21 2018, @12:20AM
It's really hard to meaningfully count words in a paper packed with formulas from integral calculus.