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Old 10-30-2009, 09:57 PM   #1
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Formatting in short answers: new paragraphs/indentation??

Hey, so I just realized that you can't indent on the 250-word statements. What is everyone else doing? Obviously I've hit enter between my paragraphs, but... are you doing a line break? Pressing space four times at the beginning of the paragraph? What?
Any adcom suggestions about what would make the text easiest to read are of course very welcome.
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:21 PM   #2
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I left a blank line between each paragraph, which I've found makes text easier to follow on a computer screen. So if this was a paragraph, I'd hit ENTER twice after it and start my next paragraph.

So my next paragraph would start here, and so on.
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:23 PM   #3
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that sounds reasonable.

anyone else doing this?
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:25 PM   #4
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I'm not even hitting enter, anywhere. I"m just typing OMGOMGOMGNEWPARAGRAPH whenever there's a new paragraph. And all my essays are in CAPS lock.

...jk

I'm putting four or five spaces at the start of new paragraphs.
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Old 11-01-2009, 05:26 PM   #5
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I've gotten used to line breaks on a computer. It's what I always do in forums. It just makes stuff easier to read in anything other than a Word-like program.
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