quick question about my paper

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Specializes in oncology, med surg & corrections.

Im in the RN-BSN Grand Canyon Univ. program, I have a paper due and it's to be 1000 words and I'm over by 100. Do I get rid 100 words or leave it? Why do they count the reference page :(

Thank you to any reply's :yeah::yeah::yeah:

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Specializes in med/surg- sub-acute, LTC,ICU,.

Try to read over your paper once more and delete anything that is not absolutely necessary. Although I don't think you will be penalized for being a few words over, 100 is alot and many times Instructors place these restrictions on the assignment to see if you will follow direction.

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Specializes in ER and family advanced nursing practice.

That is weird they count the reference page. I have not heard of that before. Go through and look for words like "also" and "very". Usually they are not needed.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

My favorite phrase to change for word count is "in order to." Such as, "In order to improve my grade, I eliminated some words" ... You really don't need the "in order" phrase, see what I mean? :) "To improve my grade..." has the same meaning.

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please tell me they dont actually count words? when i did papers in HS it was understood that so many characters/letters=a word.......

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