Or you could go into the settings and change every comma, full stop, question and exclamation mark from size 12 to size 14 or 16 if you really want to boost the page numbers. You would be surprised to find out how much the actually adds to the amount of space taken up, turning a 1 page essay into 2 maybe 3 pages.Xealeon said:During my years in the public school system I had to write papers on many occasions and usually the teacher would tell us it had to be X page(s) long. After writing a couple of these I began to wonder, what is the point of having a minimum page count?
The way I see it, if someone can eloquently express everything they need in one page then forcing them to write five just means they're going to have to fill their essay with useless fluff. If they can't express what they need in however much they write then it should come up during the editing process anyways.
On topic. it's to stop kids from putting the most basic answer. Where I am from it is usually so many words, like "you must write 3,000 words".
Just gets kids talking rather than writing the equivalent of "this" or "they just do".