<p>How bad is it to make up a quote to conclude your essay? I stuck in a made up quote by a made up foreign philosopher to end it. But everything else was true. How will it affect my grade? I know people on here have done it before and gotten 12s, etc but will they take points if they find out its fake? Or will they check? My friend is telling me you can’t make up stuff and so now I’m worried 
I really need a good grade on the essay</p>
<p>The grader’s have only a few minutes to look over your paper and grade it. So they wont go on the internet and investigate to find out of it is true or not.</p>
<p>Zeroat is right they spend 2-3 minutes per essay so making up one little thing is no big deal, they’re judging your writing ability not your knowledge of quotes. As long as you didn’t say the quote was said by shama lama dingdong you should be fine.</p>
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<p>I made up a French writer…</p>
<p>It’s okay to make up stuff since they grade on how well your (fake) examples support your essay, not how real your examples are.</p>
<p>What about general examples? My first two were specific, about my sister and one person, but my third one was like “leaders generally…”</p>
<p>Haha I laughed at that! (shama)
Thanks guys!</p>
<p>and superstarlala, I’m no expert but I would have tried to be a little specific but since you already have two you should be fine!</p>