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I never had this problem. I was doing the opposite, even
Don’t forget the line spacing. That was always my first go to if I needed a page more or less.
Kerning is where the magic happens.
I’ve never heard of a page limit. Surely word limit is the standard?
In college most of my courses were page ranges. 7-12 pages, 75-100, etc. I went over a few times and never heard anything about it
I think the upper limits are mostly there for two reasons. To give the students a rough idea of what’s expected in scope and also to protect the person from having to grade a 100 page thesis when they planned to grade a short essay.
That being said, there were a few times where they enforced strict page limits for us, but in those cases they would warn us about it explicitly multiple times.
I thought word minimum was the standard.
Past a point, your instructor/professor only has so much time to read through everyone’s papers, and it’s easy to waffle. If there’s no limit and a student turns in a 500 page write-up when the expectation was 50, that student’s paper will take a lot more time to process through. Enough students do that, and what was supposed to take one week to grade now takes considerably longer, which is a big problem when there’s extra curriculum to go over.
Page/word limits are ultimately much more difficult than minimums. Taking a concept described in 5000 words and distilling it down to 2500 is much, much harder than writing the 5000 words in the first place. It’s a good test of skill in uni.
Agreed, concision is perhaps one of the most useful skills I learned that I’m absolutely rubbish at applying.
Circoncision
cries in all assignments had to be written and not typed
