Jay wrote:
Uzique wrote:
single spaced... your profs don't care to comment on your work in more depth, then?
and hang on, what sorta retarded college asks for essays in page-length? word length makes far more sense
Most professors require a standard font, margin sizes etc so the number of words per page ends up being around 800 per page. Because of this, there is no difference between asking for a word count or asking for a certain number of pages.
... well there is because a page-length doesn't account for any formatting (in the case of a long piece of work: breaks, sub-titles, sections, appendices etc.) nor does it account for the length and space consumption of footnotes and referencing (something exempted from word-counts). also academic essays need a bibliography and full referencing style which consumes ~1 page minimum in itself. asking for a piece of work by page-length is pretty dumb. for a start, if you have some try-too-hard-to-please undergraduates putting out some verbiose and erudite wankery, the long running sentences of even longer words will take up way more space than someone writing simply and in a terse manner. you can fill up page-space in many more ways to artificially inflate your work than you can if you just write to a word count specification. you don't even need to mention font sizes and margins and retarded high-school level shit like that because every single academic essay must conform to a general stylesheet, anyway. it's a patronising waste of time to be fussing over your font sizes when you're having contact time with a professor.
Last edited by Uzique (2011-11-03 22:00:53)