<p>Will anyone tell non-native speaker how to count words in essay. Do prepositions, articles, pronouns and etc. count?</p>
<p>Just use the word count function on Microsoft Word.</p>
<p>Thanks...silly me :-)</p>
<p>Ok, but in word count, it counts every word, including prepositions and stuff. Wouldn’t it be better counting manually so we avoid prepositions and get more “normal” words? What do colleges think about it?</p>
<p>I am sure every word counts, whether it is a preposition or not.</p>