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Does it allow me to hit the page count of my essay even easier?
by topkai22 8y ago
Does it allow me to hit the page count of my essay even easier?
- arthurfm 8y agoYou might be interested in Times Newer Roman. [1] It's like Times New Roman, but 5-10% wider so enables you to write 13% fewer words. [1] https://timesnewerroman.com/ https://timesnewerroman.com/
- anonytrary 8y agoOf course that's a thing! Although 13% doesn't sound like a significant amount. The trick I used in high school: Write the essay. If it's too short by 20-30%, increase the verbosity in every place you can until it's long enough. If it's short by more than 30% then you have bigger problems. If your essay only needs an extra page on a 15 page assignment, chances are you can add fluff and easily hit the 15 page mark.
- comex 8y agoI think I'd have more use for the opposite: a font that's 13% narrower, to stuff more words into a page limit. It's harder to make text more concise than more verbose!
- anonytrary 8y agoYes, I agree. Concision is an art, verbosity is a chore.
- mark-r 8y agoTimes New Roman was designed to fit a lot of text on a newspaper page. Its popularity is completely due to it being an accessible default in early software, not to any intrinsic superiority in presentation. I consider it to be quite ugly, although not as bad as Arial.
- petecox 8y agoEssays for academia thus typically insist on word counts. Albeit they encourage 3/2 or double spacing so they can leave annotations during marking.