Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.66.16.115-20200727024240/@comment-38078079-20200728183147

Tupka217 wrote: You never had to pad an essay? At the risk of being off-topic, we were marked down for padding essays.

We were drilled into us "point, quote, comment" from high school, and it carried over vaguely into university, where your lecturer would just put a red line through any padding and refuse to mark it (and mark you down if it was deemed excessive). I thus never really had to deviate from present tense too much, as I wasn't allowed to summarise or leave biographies.