"Show your work", "Correct answer without showing your work earns a zero". These were things that were extremely common in STEM classes when I was in school an

"Show your work", "Correct answer without showing your work earns a zero". These were things that were extremely common in STEM classes when I was in school and were rare in English classes. This author/professor has a very solid point that English instructors being less lazy and grading on the process instead of the final result would go a long way in terms of combatting cheating and producing better writers. Another issue I remember was humanities professors at the college level expecting papers to be padded out to X pages even when you didn't need that length to make a strong argument or prove a thesis. The professor wants extra pages of BS to get the good grade, why not let ChatGPT take your 10 page paper that includes all the correct information and pad it out to 25 pages of redundancy and repetition to meet the weird requirement? I think in some cases it might have been hard to resist if these programs had been around, because I always resented having to write that extra nonsense in a class I was taking as a required elective.