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BaAsKa
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Topic: Question RE essay writing... Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:34pm |
In the criteria it says that my essay has to be double spaced which i took to mean double spaced between the words....Is that right???
I know - such a cabbage question! lol
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kebakat
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:37pm |
Nah, double spaced between the lines..
Go to Format then paragraph (in the toolbars in word) and it has an option for line spacing
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:38pm |
Nope, it means line spacing. If you are using work, click format>paragraph then select line spacing and choose double.
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:42pm |
Yep what they have both said.
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BaAsKa
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:47pm |
oh right. I just thought it was between the words because it said "make sure your essay is double spaced and a minimum of 1.5 line spacing"
Shesh! what a stupid question that was!!!
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:49pm |
When you say that it makes me think that yes you do have to have double spacing between the words, but that would look really silly. Is that paper a WebCT paper, maybe ask on there.
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:51pm |
Geez could they have worded that any more stupidly?!
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BaAsKa
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:59pm |
no its not a webCT paper.
It is really badly worded! but then my mind is a little boggled right now so thought i was just being cabbage!
Id say now that it probably means in between the lines.
I cant remember whether i got that out of my Admin handbork or off the massey website.
My mum thought the double word spacing sounded odd and so did i but as i havnt written an essay since high school and definately not a scholarly one at that! i had no idea! it was so much easier doing exams and building miniture houses
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:11pm |
Just to throw a monkey wrench into the equation... It *might* mean double spacing between paragraphs (meaning, hit return twice after the end of a paragraph) but 1.5 spacing between lines within paragraphs...
Or it *could* mean insert a double space after a full stop between sentences. (At my uni this was the norm, but at the magazines I've worked at it's been single-spacing after full stops...)
Sounds like your lecturer needs to clarify things for you! You poor confuzzled thing. 
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:19pm |
oh bugger! now i am confussed  lol
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:25pm |
I'd double space everything LOL!
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:36pm |
FionaS wrote:
I'd double space everything LOL! |
LMAO!
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 8:45pm |
FionaS wrote:
I'd double space everything LOL! |
You would spend more time putting spaces in than typing words!
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 8:58pm |
Katherine wrote:
Just to throw a monkey wrench into the equation... It *might* mean double spacing between paragraphs (meaning, hit return twice after the end of a paragraph) but 1.5 spacing between lines within paragraphs...
Or it *could* mean insert a double space after a full stop between sentences. (At my uni this was the norm, but at the magazines I've worked at it's been single-spacing after full stops...)
Sounds like your lecturer needs to clarify things for you! You poor confuzzled thing.  |
wow now even im confuzzled!!!
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Posted: 29 July 2008 at 9:55pm |
OMG, my first essay that said this I really did go thru and put an extra space in between every word!!!
I would just use the double spacing function.
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Posted: 30 July 2008 at 12:34pm |
an easy way to space lines is to select all your text and press control & 5 to space lines 1.5, and control & 2 for double line spacing. to get it back to single line spacing press control & 1
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Posted: 30 July 2008 at 12:40pm |
i wouldn't write any thing at all i would just hit the space bar , like this
there, thats my essay , with all the spaces they want !
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