indenting

[Jonathan Lighter]

Setting the margins in this d@^^'3d program is so impossible without RTFM that I don't bother. Others may have the same problem.

Otherwise, indent or get consequenced.

JL

Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:
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I don't mind nonindented papers as long as there's doublespacing between
paragraphs; otherwise they drive me crazy (and I get this a lot from
students). I encourage indenting mainly because of this problem.

At 11:52 AM 1/27/2005, you wrote:
>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
> 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..
>
>
>
>*****************************************************************
>Peter A. McGraw Linfield College McMinnville, Oregon
>******************* pmcgraw at linfield.edu ************************

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