Question RE essay writing...
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Topic: Question RE essay writing...
Posted By: BaAsKa
Subject: Question RE essay writing...
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:34pm
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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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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:37pm
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Nah, double spaced between the lines..
Go to Format then paragraph (in the toolbars in word) and it has an option for line spacing |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:38pm
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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 By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:42pm
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Yep what they have both said. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date 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 By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:49pm
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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. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:51pm
| Geez could they have worded that any more stupidly?! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 2:59pm
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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 By: Katherine
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:11pm
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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. |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:19pm
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oh bugger! now i am confussed lol
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:25pm
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I'd double space everything LOL! ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 3:36pm
LMAO!
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FionaS wrote:Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 8:45pm
You would spend more time putting spaces in than typing words! ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 8:58pm
wow now even im confuzzled!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
Posted By: JadeC
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 9:55pm
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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. ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: kriss
Date Posted: 30 July 2008 at 12:34pm
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 30 July 2008 at 12:40pm
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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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