I used to add extraneous sentences in papers to pad the length and never got punished
Does anybody else do this? Think my teacher saw it but didn't say anything ?
Beginning in middle school and I think continuing into some college classes I would occasionally add one to three unrelated sentences in the middle of my submissions to pad the length (often just saying the function of the sentence was to add length). Eg "i am adding a few sentences to make it look like I wrote more hopefully a second sentence makes it more convincing"
This was usually if not always for busywork assignments throughout the year that I felt I wasn't getting feedback other than length parameters.