I was writing a couple grants recently, some with page limits and some with word limits. Which of course got me thinking about the differences in how to game these two constraints. If you have a word limit, you definitely don’t want to use up your limit on a bunch of little words, which might lead to a bit more long-wordiness. With the page limit, though, you spend endless time trying to use shorter words to get that one pesky paragraph one little line shorter (and hope the figures don’t ...
