From owner-cse575-fa08-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU  Sun Dec  7 15:52:25 2008
Date:         Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:52:13 -0500
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Subject: 575:  "Double Spacing"
To: CSE575-FA08-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU

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Subject: "Double Spacing"
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A student writes:

> While formatting the term paper according to the guidelines on the webpage, I
> came across a point which said,
> 
> "It should be double-spaced"
> 
> Is this the spacing between adjacent words or is it the spacing between two lines?

That phrase always refers to the spacing between two lines.  Thus, a
double-spaced, "typed" page usually has about 250 words, so a 10-page,
double-spaced, "typed" paper would have about 2500 words.