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Akinaj Rock <akinaj_22 DeleteThis @lycos.de> wrote in message news:<5f1h905996d8fajgbh90ofk6l1ugo5mr0h DeleteThis @4ax.com>...
> Rhino 7 <laney2 DeleteThis @comfishcast.net> schrieb:
>
> >>The ultimate trick (especially on longer papers) is to fudge the
> >>margins by .1 inch. A tenth of an inch isn't a noticeable difference
> >>to look at the page, but it'll stretch your paper out by a few extra
> >>lines if you get to the 3 1/2 page mark and have nothing left to say
> >>(for longer papers, you can get whole extra pages just by shifting the
> >>top & bottom margins to 1.1 instead of 1 inch).
> >>
> >> -Sapphire (can you tell I've done this before?).
> >
> >Don't forget line spacing. I got a 55 page document to 50 pages once
> >just by spacing paragraphs 6 points instead of a full line, and
> >changing the line spacing to .97 instead of 1.
> >
> >The Bookwurm (occasionally does this to Word for a living)
>
> You actually had too much text? *shakes head* That would never happen
> to me, I've dutifully noted all the nice tricks to expand length,
> because, come this weekend, I'll probably desperately need them. My
> M.A. dissertation is entering the finishing stage and I sincerely
> doubt I'll manage the required 60-80 pages without help.
>
>
> Akinaj
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My problem isn't exactly something that can be fixed by these, even
though I'm making notes, too. It's a history paper on the local
historical society. There just isn't a lot of history since it was
founded about twenty-four years ago. I've got some notes from an
interview, a pamphlet, and their website. I think instead of a lot of
history, my teacher's going to get what's going on now. At least it
will become history.

-Kenzie
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Sapphire <Tiyanath DeleteThis @yahoo.SPAMTRAP.com> writes:
 > Bard Kesnit <vtcheme DeleteThis @hotmail.nospam..com> wrote:
  >> moonsilver DeleteThis @xpressamerica.net (Kenzie Kennedy) wrote:

   >>> Thank you! Now, where did I put that stretching machine? I have
   >>>perhaps 3/4 of a page and I'm supposed to have four full pages on this
   >>>paper...

  >>1) Double space
  >>2) Use a lot of "and" and "the"
  >>3) Use long quotes. When you indent them, they take up more lines

 >Also for slight stretching, try adjusting your font size by a very
 >small margin (like 10.5 instead of 10).

....and if the context makes them appropriate, use lots of section
headers. They typically need at least two spaces above and one
below, so you get an extra three lines.

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> My problem isn't exactly something that can be fixed by these, even
>though I'm making notes, too. It's a history paper on the local
>historical society. There just isn't a lot of history since it was
>founded about twenty-four years ago. I've got some notes from an
>interview, a pamphlet, and their website. I think instead of a lot of
>history, my teacher's going to get what's going on now. At least it
>will become history.
>
>-Kenzie

More interview(s)? Pictures? Maps? Timelines?

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>You actually had too much text? *shakes head* That would never happen
>to me, I've dutifully noted all the nice tricks to expand length,
>because, come this weekend, I'll probably desperately need them. My
>M.A. dissertation is entering the finishing stage and I sincerely
>doubt I'll manage the required 60-80 pages without help.
>
>Akinaj
>(Why yes, I think brevity is a virtue)

I work for the government. People around here can (and do) blither on
for page after page saying ... something i'm sure. Unfortunately
no-one's ever found out because even a bureaucrat can only read 20 or
so pages without falling asleep.

The Bookwurm (prefers pictures)
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All these tips on how to lengthen an essay. Oh if only my college did it
by number of pages rather than by number of words.....

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Akinaj Rock <akinaj_22.DeleteThis@lycos.de> writes:

>You actually had too much text? *shakes head* That would never happen
>to me, I've dutifully noted all the nice tricks to expand length,
>because, come this weekend, I'll probably desperately need them. My
>M.A. dissertation is entering the finishing stage and I sincerely
>doubt I'll manage the required 60-80 pages without help.

My Master's thesis in the early 1970s didn't have any specific size
requirement, but it wound up being perhaps 150 pages or so (I have
*no* idea where my copy is) -- but a good part of that was program
listings. (The title was "A Sequential Circuit Simulator" -- and I
had the advantage that nobody on my committee was a programmer.)

Joe Morris
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