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Times Newer Roman Font Makes Academic Papers Look Longer

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 20 2018, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the bigger-but-less-filling dept.

DannyB writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 20 2018, @03:52PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday September 20 2018, @03:52PM (#737551)

    If one must use font Foo, a similar-but-different font called Bar is scarcely a tool to improve compliance.

    In addition, you installing a third-party font on your PC is not going to change how your instructor views it. Don't office suites still default to the next-closest match if they don't have a given font installed? In which case it defaults back to Times New Roman and your paper is now under-length anyway. The ploy only works if you're turning in a paper copy.

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