This doesn't appear to be the case, re: longer papers. Whycome so many papers fall short of minimum page counts?
The perils are clearer. "Students will tinker endlessly with the text and forget that their paper doesn't have a thesis," says Kathleen Skubikowski, an assistant professor of English who directs the writing program at Middlebury College.
"I receive immaculately word-processed documents that are just terrible," says David Galef, an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
Interesting! Sometimes a roadblock to me is the time it takes to learn the technology associated with new applications and, like the thesis for students, I'm occaionally in danger of forgetting to plan my class lessons.