UC Personal StatementFormatting?

College Essays
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<p>when submitting the personal statement do you space out different paragraphs by using the enter key, or not? </p>

<p>For example,</p>

<p>A browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources. A web browser can also be defined as an application software or program designed to enable users to access, retrieve and view documents and other resources on the Internet.
Although browsers are primarily intended to use the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or files in file systems. The major web browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.</p>

<p>or
A browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources. A web browser can also be defined as an application software or program designed to enable users to access, retrieve and view documents and other resources on the Internet.</p>

<p>Although browsers are primarily intended to use the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or files in file systems. The major web browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.</p>

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<p>I’m almost certain you do. It makes it much harder to read when the entire essay is one block of text. Besides, it doesn’t add to your word count, so you might as well make it easier on the readers!</p>

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<p>Spacing out kindof makes 'em look less cluttered. and as ^^ said, it doesnt influence your word count, so why not?</p>