indenting

[Peter A. McGraw]

I haven't indented a paragraph in years.

For letters, the indented style (indented paragraphs, date, address and
signature on the right) has been out of fashion for a long time.  Just now
I tried without success to find a statement about the two styles as applied
to books in The Chicago Manual of Style, but I notice that they use the
indented style (first paragraph flush, subsequent paragraphs indented, no
space between paragraphs) in their preface.  Admittedly, I'm still using
the 14th edition.

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:58 PM -0600 Janis Vizier Nihart
<tarheel at MOBILETEL.COM> wrote:

>      I teach second grade.  I have been doing a program called Step Up to
> Writing with my students for 2 years.  They had better indent or they
> rewrite the whole thing.  By the way, the program is great.  They learn
> to write an introductory sentence and a conclusion, with detail
> sentences, supporting sentences, and transition words..



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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