Poll of the Day > Halfway done with my 60 page paper.

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It's due Wednesday night/Thursday morning. (Professor said "just have it in before I wake up".)

Did five pages one night, ten pages another night, and fifteen pages last night. Weird to think I could be done with it by tomorrow!

hey nice you got this

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See, and you thought you weren't going to be able to finish it.
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Just 20 more pages and your'e done

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Just 20 more pages and your'e done

no just 30 more.

remember that that's (afaik) 12-point Times New Roman double spaced. some people think it's like 8-point single spaced and think it's way longer than it's supposed to be.

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how poor is the quality of what you have composed thus far?

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

It's due Wednesday night/Thursday morning. (Professor said "just have it in before I wake up".)

Did five pages one night, ten pages another night, and fifteen pages last night. Weird to think I could be done with it by tomorrow!

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Sahuagin posted...

remember that that's (afaik) 12-point Times New Roman double spaced. some people think it's like 8-point single spaced and think it's way longer than it's supposed to be.

Who thinks this

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Jen0125 posted...

Who thinks this

people that have never been told otherwise? I finally had it explained for the first time in a 3rd year course. wasn't the only one there glad to hear it explained.

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Sahuagin posted...

people that have never been told otherwise? I finally had it explained for the first time in a 3rd year course. wasn't the only one there glad to hear it explained.

That's crazy to me. As far back as I can remember (even classes in the 90's), it was basically beaten into our heads from day one that nothing other than double-spaces, 12-point New Times Roman would be accepted.

I've only ever been told through my entire schooling career 12pt double spaced

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CTLM posted...

That's crazy to me. As far back as I can remember (even classes in the 90's), it was basically beaten into our heads from day one that nothing other than double-spaces, 12-point New Times Roman would be accepted.

it probably depends on the type of classes you're taking. I know english and especially history will be super strict about that kind of thing which is why I mostly avoided those.

honestly though it's kind of nice to have it confirmed. expected that I could have just as easily gotten "where the hell did you hear that, that's not true!" responses. literally only was told it the one time.

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The rules for my paper is 12 point courier

Sahuagin posted...

it probably depends on the type of classes you're taking. I know english and especially history will be super strict about that kind of thing which is why I mostly avoided those.

honestly though it's kind of nice to have it confirmed. expected that I could have just as easily gotten "where the hell did you hear that, that's not true!" responses. literally only was told it the one time.

The only things that have been different has been citations and references. English uses MLA while History uses Chicago. Of course, there's footnotes and bibliographies that are unique too. My math teacher had us use APA when we wrote a few papers, but I don't know if that's the "accepted" form or not.

I am now 45 pages out of 60 pages!

Get back to work. You're slacking.

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Finished.

CTLM posted...

That's crazy to me. As far back as I can remember (even classes in the 90's), it was basically beaten into our heads from day one that nothing other than double-spaces, 12-point New Times Roman would be accepted.

I never had a single teacher actually give standards for papers until like halfway through college. But part of that is probably because I was still on the cusp of people writing papers on a computer in the first place when I was in school.

I mean, when I was in elementary school, you'd have been doing your homework on an Apple IIe and printing it out on a dot matrix printer. Even by college, neither Google nor Wikipedia existed yet, and even the more advanced students would only have Windows 95, while most of us still had Windows 3.1 (and one of my roommates in college was using still OS/2). Standards take time to develop before they become more or less universal - for a while, teachers were still figuring out just what computers were capable of, and the best ways to use them.

But I definitely remember times when a teacher either asked for 10pt or single-spaced. Mostly because clever people would exploit kerning and spacing to put less content in an assignment than the teacher expected. I'm not sure there was ever really anything resembling a standard expectation even by the time I graduated (there was also disagreement on the best way to cite - teachers tended to lean more towards the Chicago Manual in high school, but my college tended to favor MLA and APA depending on the teacher).
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12 point double space is definitely the standard now, and has been what Ive been taught since middle school.

Anyway, good job, TC! I have a 30 pager due on the 31st thats Ive yet to start : )

what was was your paper about?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I never had a single teacher actually give standards for papers until like halfway through college. But part of that is probably because I was still on the cusp of people writing papers on a computer in the first place when I was in school.

I mean, when I was in elementary school, you'd have been doing your homework on an Apple IIe and printing it out on a dot matrix printer. Even by college, neither Google nor Wikipedia existed yet, and even the more advanced students would only have Windows 95, while most of us still had Windows 3.1 (and one of my roommates in college was using still OS/2). Standards take time to develop before they become more or less universal - for a while, teachers were still figuring out just what computers were capable of, and the best ways to use them.

But I definitely remember times when a teacher either asked for 10pt or single-spaced. Mostly because clever people would exploit kerning and spacing to put less content in an assignment than the teacher expected. I'm not sure there was ever really anything resembling a standard expectation even by the time I graduated (there was also disagreement on the best way to cite - teachers tended to lean more towards the Chicago Manual in high school, but my college tended to favor MLA and APA depending on the teacher).

My first papers for school were typed at home on a typewriter. I have no idea what the font size is or format. I didn't type a paper on a computer for the first time until 1993 and that was at my school when I was 13.

The format? You guessed it: Double spaced, New Times Roman. Maybe it depends on the state and how "important" the dept of education thinks it is?