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Check your Model UN (MUN) position paper against your conference's limit before you submit it. Paste the draft to see words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, estimated pages, and reading and speaking time, with a progress bar toward your limit. It also checks for the sections chairs look for and counts your citations. Everything runs in your browser, and your text is never uploaded.
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Pages and times are estimates. Your word processor may count a few words differently (around dashes, slashes and numbers, for example); if your conference is strict, confirm the final number in the program you submit from.
Looks for the sections most Model UN position papers cover, by heading or, where there is none, by what the text says. Not every conference uses headings, so treat “not found” as something to check, not a mistake.
Paste your draft above to check its sections.
Paste your draft above to count its citations.
Copy your position paper from your document and paste it into the box, header and works cited included. The counts update as you type or edit. Your text stays in your browser.
Pick 1, 1.5 or 2 pages (about 500 words per single-spaced page), or type the exact word limit from your background guide. If the limit is per topic, paste one topic at a time.
If your sources sit under a heading such as "Works Cited" or "Bibliography" and your conference does not count them, tick "Don't count the bibliography" to see the body count on its own.
The structure check looks for a header and the four sections most papers cover: background, past international action, your country's policy and proposed solutions. The citation check counts footnote markers, numbered and author-year references, links and works-cited entries, and warns when it finds none.
Use the progress bar to trim to the limit, then confirm the final count in the program you submit from.
Your position paper is the first thing the dais learns about your delegation, and chairs read a whole committee's worth of them before the first session. The limit in your background guide is part of the assignment: going over it tells the chair you didn't read the instructions, and at conferences that tie awards to position papers it can cost you.
There is no single Model UN standard. Some conferences ask for one single-spaced page per topic, others for several; some count the header and works cited, others don't; some set the limit per topic and others for the whole paper. Find the position paper section of your background guide or the conference website, set the limit here to match, and check it again after every round of edits.
Most drafts run long in the same places. Work through these in order before you touch your evidence.
Your chair wrote the background guide, so repeating it back earns nothing. Two or three sentences that define the problem and one sourced figure are usually enough; the words are better spent on your country's record and your solutions.
"It is important to note that", "The delegation would like to emphasize that" and "In today's world" can go without losing anything. After the first mention, "the Delegation of the Republic of Korea" can simply be "the Republic of Korea".
The counter flags any sentence over 40 words. Long sentences usually hide a list or two ideas; splitting them often reveals a clause you can drop, and makes the paper easier to skim before committee.
Two or three specific proposals beat five vague ones. If two ideas share the same actor or funding source, combine them into one proposal that could become a single operative clause.
Resolution symbols, votes, treaty names and figures are what make a paper credible. "Extremely significant and deeply concerning" is not. Cut descriptive words before you cut evidence.
Shrinking the font, margins or line spacing to fit a page limit can break the formatting rules in your background guide, and a cramped page is harder to read. Fit the words to the page, not the page to the words.
Outline each section with a word budget, then research and draft with sources.
The research process, templates and annotated examples, step by step.
Where to find your country's statements, votes and treaty record.
Turn the paper's strongest lines into a timed opening speech.
The counter tells you how long your paper is. Model Diplomat can tell you whether it is convincing: which claims need a source, whether your country's policy matches its record, and what to cut first. The button opens search with a review prompt ready for you to paste your draft into; only what you send there leaves your browser. A free account includes 200 searches on day one, then 50 a day.