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Re: Woodie Flowers Character/Word limit
6000 characters is my understanding. The form online where you upload the essay specifies, "Student Essay
(6,000 characters allowed, including spaces and punctuation, or approximately 600 words) "

I've had a different difficulty with submitting the Woodie Flowers essay. When you "Save" the essay onto the website, the website reformats the essay to erase all indentations and paragraphs. While I've tried indenting the paragraphs, adding a line in between paragraphs (just separating the paragraphs with Enter), and tabbing over to make the paragraphs new bullet points, I have been unable to enter the essay so that the submission shows the breaks in between paragraphs. Any suggestions about how to format it to differentiate between the end of a paragraph and the beginning of a new one? In fact, does this even matter - will the judges read the version as it is submitted?

We've considered writing the words "new paragraph" at the beginning of each paragraph. Does that sound like a workable option?

Thanks,
Zach
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