So, for every ten lines you actually write, you get the effect of having written eleven instead. So for instance, if your essay is 10 lines with double spacing, and you change the spacing to 2.1, you get an extra 0.1 of a line for every line you’ve written, and 0.1×10 = 1. The thing to remember is that the longer the base essay, the more they amplify the length. Too large a gap may arouse suspicion, but changing an essay from double spaced to 2.1 spacing may actually make a large difference. In any case, even with common edges, it’s not likely that your teacher will whip out a ruler and measure. In some fonts, there is a common edge except for letters that hang above or below the line, but in fonts that are meant to look more like handwriting, there is not. The spacing between lines is very difficult to measure because although in most fonts the top and bottom edges vary significantly. Probably not going to happen, but it actually has happened to me before. For instance, if a teacher were to print out the word “the” in Times New Roman size 12 on a piece of transparency paper, they could then hold it over a word “the” in your essay and confirm whether or not it’s identical. Slight changes are fairly hard to measure in a printout, however, it is possible. Below is a picture of identical text in two columns, both in Times New Roman, but size 12 on the left and size 13 on the right.Įven if your teacher demands size 12 Times New Roman, you might be tempted to change it anyway. Just changing the font size from 12 to 13 can add a few lines to your paper. Going with a size 72 font will undoubtedly make your paper surpass the required page count, but isn’t the best idea. The fonts, from left to right, are “Angsana New”, “Calibri”, “Times New Roman”, and “Algerian”.įont size can also make a big impact on your paper. Below is a picture of the word “Hello” printed four times, each at size 12. Obviously you don’t want to choose a font that’s too difficult to read, as it may annoy the person grading it. You want to choose a font that maximizes height. However, when they forget to add that to the rules, you can change it to whatever you want (assuming there’s no blanket statement about it on the syllabus). Some teachers demand that Times New Roman size 12 be used. Font Choice and Font Sizeįirst, font or font size is a fairly easy way to make an essay longer. Note: This tutorial is for Microsoft Word as a part of Office 2007, although many of the same techniques can be used in previous or subsequent versions of Word. Here are a few techniques that have served me well. But what happens when you have 4 and a half pages done of your five page essay? There are plenty of writing techniques to flesh ideas out and make it longer, but I’m assuming that your essay is perfect as it is and you want a more technological answer. Other teachers use the page count as a metric of completion. It’s somewhat difficult to make demands on essays for students – demanding that they have 500 words, for example, leads to really, really, very, extremely superfluous lists of adjectives and describing words like this sentence to up the word count.
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