[Ektar]

it depends on the teacher.. usually the age. basically how accustomed he is to technology. in undergrad it was like (completely made u pstatistics)... half hard copy, quarter hardcopy or email, and quarter email. now in grad it's been all hardcopy

and yes, owning a computer is basically expected now. They have "computer labs" available to anyone who doesn't have a computer, buuuut yeah it's expected to own a computer and have internet access.


and it IS quicker to write more words. but when your paper is done but it justi sn't long enough, what do you do? Already having inserted extraneous words all over the place and not making it, then you start increasing spaces and punctuation. Adding a quote from the internet will likely only detract from the quality of the paper. Because this is likely beyond extraneous and just doesn't belong.

Don't confuse these shortcuts with lack of intelligence. I'm actually quite smrt. my 4.75 page paper on a 5-6 page requirement is going to be far better than a paper written by some dolt in the class who wrote a 6 page paper. The shortcuts are just so it fits the arbitrary length.