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500 Word Limit For Exhibit Category

The word limit counts toward any student-composed written materials that are used on an exhibit (excluding the title page, process paper and annotated bibliography). For example:

A date counts as one word, while each word in a name is individually counted. Therefore, “January 1, 1990” counts as one word, but “John Quincy Adams” counts as three.
Words such as “a,” “the,” and “of” are counted as one word each.
The limit does not include words found in materials used for illustration, such as documents, artifacts or graphs not created by the students, or to quotations from primary sources such as oral history interviews, letters or diaries. These materials are not student composed.
Brief citations crediting the sources of illustrations or quotations included on the exhibits do not count toward the 500-word limit.
Words in timelines or scrapbooks do count toward the limit if they are student composed. But, if a timeline is a transcription of a secondary or primary source then it is not student composed and does not count toward the word limit.

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