Be careful, however, of using white space to pad your writing. If I suspect that you are padding, I will require you to reformat your writing extensively and to come up with more material. The 80 pages do not include title sheets for individual chapters or sections, appendices, blank pages separating sections or chapters, or blank pages inserted before the initial title page or after the last typed page of the thesis. As you know, you must have credible evidence to support your assertions. Usually this evidence consists of quotations from authorities or from research data and informants.
Writers often misquote.
For example, in a two-part article published in The New Yorker in 1983, Janet Malcolm repeatedly ascribed fabricated quotations to her informant, Dr. Jeffrey M. Masson, a psychoanalyst and former projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. I don't think so. I think they were acts of gross irresponsibility. Please quote accurately, and please double check your quotations. If you have transcribed an interview from a tape recording, I want a copy of the tape to check the transcript.