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 word count from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
 the word count is the number of words in a document or passage of text Word counting may be needed when a text
 is required to stay within certain numbers of words This may particularly be the case in academia legal
 proceedings journalism and advertising Word count is commonly used by translators to determine the price for
 the translation job Word counts may also be used to calculate measures of readability and to measure typing
 and reading speeds usually in words per minute When converting character counts to words a measure of five or
 six characters to a word is generally used Contents Details and variations of definition Software In fiction
 In non fiction See also References Sources External links Details and variations of definition
 This section does not cite any references or sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to
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 Variations in the operational definitions of how to count the words can occur namely what counts as a word and
 which words don't count toward the total However especially since the advent of widespread word processing there
 is a broad consensus on these operational definitions and hence the bottom line integer result
 The consensus is to accept the text segmentation rules generally found in most word processing software including how
 word boundaries are determined which depends on how word dividers are defined The first trait of that definition is that a space any of various whitespace
 characters such as a regular word space an em space or a tab character is a word divider Usually a hyphen or a slash is too
 Different word counting programs may give varying results depending on the text segmentation rule
 details and on whether words outside the main text such as footnotes endnotes or hidden text) are counted But the behavior
 of most major word processing applications is broadly similar However during the era when school assignments were done in
 handwriting or with typewriters the rules for these definitions often differed from todays consensus
 Most importantly many students were drilled on the rule that certain words don't count usually articles namely a an the but
 sometimes also others such as conjunctions for example and or but and some prepositions usually to of Hyphenated permanent
 compounds such as follow up noun or long term adjective were counted as one word To save the time and effort of counting
 word by word often a rule of thumb for the average number of words per line was used such as 10 words per line These rules
 have fallen by the wayside in the word processing era the word count feature of such software which follows the text
 segmentation rules mentioned earlier is now the standard arbiter because it is largely consistent across documents and
 applications and because it is fast effortless and costless already included with the application As for which sections of
 a document count toward the total such as footnotes endnotes abstracts reference lists and bibliographies tables figure
 captions hidden text the person in charge teacher client can define their choice and users students workers can simply
 select or exclude the elements accordingly and watch the word count automatically update Software Modern web browsers
 support word counting via extensions via a JavaScript bookmarklet or a script that is hosted in a website Most word
 processors can also count words Unix like systems include a program wc specifically for word counting
 As explained earlier different word counting programs may give varying results depending on the text segmentation rule
 details The exact number of words often is not a strict requirement thus the variation is acceptable
 In fiction Novelist Jane Smiley suggests that length is an important quality of the novel However novels can vary
 tremendously in length Smiley lists novels as typically being between and words while National Novel Writing Month
 requires its novels to be at least words There are no firm rules for example the boundary between a novella and a novel
 is arbitrary and a literary work may be difficult to categorise But while the length of a novel is to a large extent up
 to its writer lengths may also vary by subgenre many chapter books for children start at a length of about words and a
 typical mystery novel might be in the to word range while a thriller could be over words
 The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America specifies word lengths for each category of its Nebula award categories
 Classification	Word count Novel over words Novella to words Novelette to words Short story under words
 In non fiction The acceptable length of an academic dissertation varies greatly dependent predominantly on the subject
 Numerous American universities limit Ph.D. dissertations to at most words barring special permission for exceeding this limit
	word count from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
	the word count is the number of words in a document or passage of text Word counting may be needed when a text
	is required to stay within certain numbers of words This may particularly be the case in academia legal
	proceedings journalism and advertising Word count is commonly used by translators to determine the price for
	the translation job Word counts may also be used to calculate measures of readability and to measure typing
	and reading speeds usually in words per minute When converting character counts to words a measure of five or
	six characters to a word is generally used Contents Details and variations of definition Software In fiction
	In non fiction See also References Sources External links Details and variations of definition
	This section does not cite any references or sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to
	reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed
	Variations in the operational definitions of how to count the words can occur namely what counts as a word and
	which words don't count toward the total However especially since the advent of widespread word processing there
	is a broad consensus on these operational definitions and hence the bottom line integer result
	The consensus is to accept the text segmentation rules generally found in most word processing software including how
	word boundaries are determined which depends on how word dividers are defined The first trait of that definition is that a space any of various whitespace
	characters such as a regular word space an em space or a tab character is a word divider Usually a hyphen or a slash is too
	Different word counting programs may give varying results depending on the text segmentation rule
	details and on whether words outside the main text such as footnotes endnotes or hidden text) are counted But the behavior
	of most major word processing applications is broadly similar However during the era when school assignments were done in
	handwriting or with typewriters the rules for these definitions often differed from todays consensus
	Most importantly many students were drilled on the rule that certain words don't count usually articles namely a an the but
	sometimes also others such as conjunctions for example and or but and some prepositions usually to of Hyphenated permanent
	compounds such as follow up noun or long term adjective were counted as one word To save the time and effort of counting
	word by word often a rule of thumb for the average number of words per line was used such as 10 words per line These rules
	have fallen by the wayside in the word processing era the word count feature of such software which follows the text
	segmentation rules mentioned earlier is now the standard arbiter because it is largely consistent across documents and
	applications and because it is fast effortless and costless already included with the application As for which sections of
	a document count toward the total such as footnotes endnotes abstracts reference lists and bibliographies tables figure
	captions hidden text the person in charge teacher client can define their choice and users students workers can simply
	select or exclude the elements accordingly and watch the word count automatically update Software Modern web browsers
	support word counting via extensions via a JavaScript bookmarklet or a script that is hosted in a website Most word
	processors can also count words Unix like systems include a program wc specifically for word counting
	As explained earlier different word counting programs may give varying results depending on the text segmentation rule
	details The exact number of words often is not a strict requirement thus the variation is acceptable
	In fiction Novelist Jane Smiley suggests that length is an important quality of the novel However novels can vary
	tremendously in length Smiley lists novels as typically being between and words while National Novel Writing Month
	requires its novels to be at least words There are no firm rules for example the boundary between a novella and a novel
	is arbitrary and a literary work may be difficult to categorise But while the length of a novel is to a large extent up
	to its writer lengths may also vary by subgenre many chapter books for children start at a length of about words and a
	typical mystery novel might be in the to word range while a thriller could be over words
	The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America specifies word lengths for each category of its Nebula award categories
	Classification Word count Novel over words Novella to words Novelette to words Short story under words
	In non fiction The acceptable length of an academic dissertation varies greatly dependent predominantly on the subject
	Numerous American universities limit Ph.D. dissertations to at most words barring special permission for exceeding this limit
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