Tricks to increase the amount of text on a page?

[Mill]

I've already expanded the margins. What else?

There's zero way someone can:

1. Describe six rights granted defendants by the Sixth Amendment. Explain how each of these rights helps to guarantee that a defendant gets a fair trial.

2. What roles do the strength and admissibility of the evidence play in the way prosecutors and defense attorneys evaluate and plea bargain a case. Be sure to provide examples.

3. Explain and discuss how Crawford v. Washington made major changes in the law. Explain why you agree or disagree with the decision.

IN 14 size font and do it in 4 pages. FOUR pages. No way. One takes up more than 3 on its own.

 

[thirdeye]

Single space? Different font?

 

[deerslayer]

Arial Narrow?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Holy crap ... size 14 font .... maybe look for a font that's smaller at size 14 than other ones? Some are wider or taller than others ... maybe that will help?

I personally hate anything bigger than size 10, and if I print anything, I shoot for size 8.

 

[Howard]

Change the font size of the punctuation?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Howard
Change the font size of the punctuation?

heh, i was just gonna suggest this, although you'll get maybe 1/2 a page out of it.

wait. he wants to increase the amount of text on a page not extend the number of pages?
i guess he could lower the font size of punctuation. would be hard to tell.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Single space? Different font?

I don't know if it can be single, so I was using double. Here's what the assignment said:


Answer each of the following questions fully, citing appropriate cases to support your answers. Your answers should be concise, yet detailed. Give reasons and cases to support your answers.
This assignment is to be done by each individual student, it is not a joint project.
The assignment must be typed or computer generated with a type no smaller than ?14?. Limit of 4 pages. Staple pages together in the upper left hand corner. Do not use covers or binders.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: deerslayer
Arial Narrow?

Seconded. Try Arial Narrow.

 

[BrownTown]

Hehe yeah I hate when teachers give completely unrealalistic length requirements for essays. At least its better that way then when they give you a simple question that can be answered in three lines and ask you to write four pages on its so you have to jam in 3.5 pages of BS for what you would answer in 10 seconds in real life.

 

[tfinch2]

Letter spacing

 

[thirdeye]

I'd assume single spaced then. 14 font + double spacing is pretty ridiculous.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Time for more editing.

Teachers/Profs don't give these limits to see how creative you can be at bending the rules.

 

[Gibsons]

Italics!

 

[mobobuff]

Or you could try a fixed font. Where each character occupies the same amount of width as every other character.

I copied & pasted "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. " x 15 in notepad. A font like "Fixedsys" occupies less space than a font such as Verdana, Arial, or TNR.

 

[orakle]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Letter spacing

Yep. Decrease the spacing between each character on the page. It's subtle but over a lot of text it gets the job done.

 

[yankeesfan]

Legal size paper FTW.

 

[jfall]

Ahh, don't write such long winded answers?

 

[BurnItDwn]

You could also, use one space ofter the end of sentences rather than two, and you can start paragraphs with just 2 or 3 spaces, rather than tabs ... but that may result in a bad grade due to improper use of spacing/indentation.

 

[paulxcook]

I wish I had your problem.

*goes back to work on 5-6 chapter senior thesis*

 

[FoBoT]

use bigger paper

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
I'd assume single spaced then. 14 font + double spacing is pretty ridiculous.

Yes, but this is for a judge. I've never seen a pleading in single space...so I have to assume she prefers double.

 

[Mill]

Fvck fvck fvck. I'm so fvcked.

 

[Mo0o]

Change the size of the periods and commas, MUCH less noticeble than changing the font to 14. Also you can change spacing to 2.1 to squeeze a little more out of it. And are you double spacing after periods?

Oh wiat , looks like i read your post wrong. Just reverse all my suggestions

 

[chowmein]

your best bet and it works PERFECT. decrease all your punctuation marks like "." or "," to a size smaller.

 

[paulxcook]

When is it due? Write it completely but sloppily, then edit and tighten the hell out of it. It'll probably be faster than trying to write in a lean fashion from the start.

edit: PEOPLE, notice he's NOT trying to make his paper longer. He's trying to make his writing smaller to cram as much onto a page as possible.