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On my last assignment, my friend and I handed it in a day early, only for the lecturer to tell some other people that same day that we were expected to use headings, which we hadn't. No marks for us then!
I usually use Times New Roman size 12 with 1.5 line spacing and justify both sides.
Have to say though I'm no expert most scientific journals and papers I've glanced at have been justified on both ends.
Well, it might differ from university to university, but the MLA is probably the guiding authority on academic style, which I would say is the standard for academic essays.
They say to indent paragraphs (half an inch), but not to justify the right side in case word breaks and hyphens confuse the reader (not sure I agree with this one....). www.mla.org
And letters are a totally different style from essays, so I'm not suprised that you were taught to space NPs. Although when I did look for style guidelines for law essays, the guidance notes were almost the same as the MLA guidelines.
I think I might have to do that. It would just be painful typing in Times New Roman .
Yeah. I think it's something about it being a lot easier to read for children because the letters are kinda spaced out.. Found a page http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/3W/fontJR.htm
They don't *have* to.
I have a font which is much better than comic sans, which I use. It is much kinder on the eyes too. And I only use it for the younger ones. The older ones get verdana.
ETA and Comic Sans MS just makes whoever is using it look stupid and amatuerish, or as if they are 13 years old. It's a horrible font and it shouldn't be inflicted on children.
I just really dislike serif fonts. REALLY REALLY. And Times New Roman is the worst. I just don't think it looks as neat, imo. It's not that I refuse to use it completely, if I have to then I have to, but I will avoid it at all costs. Everyone has preferences .
The worst font is Courier New, which is unfortunately the standard for transcribing conversation analysis, which I have to read a lot
Edit - Comic Sans MS is THE worst font, but Courier New is still bad. Not quite as bad as Comic Sans, as it doesn't make my eyes burn.
There's many fonts that are (i think it's called monospaced?), look around, some are nicer than others.
OCR A extended always looked computery to me but you can get normal characters just typeset like that too.
I think typography is really quite interesting. Not fancy photoshop ones, but normal ones. It can make a big difference, like going from times new roman to calibri (or verdana) is lovely for typed and printed documents. Makes them look really professional and modern.
I still think TNR looks the best, if I write something in it and then change the font a few times I can never settle on one which looks as good as TNR. It's just neat and does the job.
Mission: to eat another babybel then for a big giant poo.
Time: nearish 4'o clock
However I like Stencil and I'm using it as the title name for my Magazine in Media Studies. I also like and am using Hattenschweiler (sp?)
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And Rachael - why do I find it so shocking for a girl to be talking about pooing? :eek:
I know the Courier New is the regular font for transcription, esp. in CA and TIR (talk-in-interaction), but I think it more important to have a non-proportional font which is easier to make overlaps in than in a proportional font like TNR. My spoken quotes for my thesis are all in TNR, rather than Courier, so I think there's a bit of leeway.