Should DS always shorter than PS?

Tina Cho

Hi,

I found some schools even limit the words number to 350 even though they do not have page number limit for PS.
When there is no page number limit, should we still limit DS to 1 page/shorter than PS? or maybe, longest 2 pages or so?
By the way, characters and words are different right?
When it says 1000 characters, it is not the same as 1000 words, right?

Thank you

stgl1230

Characters are individual letters and punctuation, so yes, it's not the same as word count. A 1000-character essay is much shorter than 1000 words.

Generally speaking, I would make your DS shorter than your PS. At the most, two pages double spaced with a reasonably sized font.