Decision Time: Spend Spring Break at the beach or... WalMart!?!

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

No idea how I did, but I got an A on the paper. I read it a year later, it wasn't too bad.

Don't be surprised if the paper was never read. I found that grading things unread wasn't particularly uncommon as I went through school. Twice in grad school I finally got the balls up to test it when I thought the instructor wasn't grading on much more than expectation. Both times in the middle of long papers I said essentially "At this point I don't expect you to be reading so the next seven pages or so of this paper are just some article I copied and pasted from DIALOG. Mostly it's here to fill out this paper to the required length for the assignment." I made sure to cite it fully so that while I could get in trouble I wouldn't be kicked out for plagiarism. Tacked on a couple pages at the end with the conclusion of my paper (and the papers were fine except that they were shorter than required) and turned it.

Both times I got decent grades without comment.