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To those of you who have taken writing-intensive college-level courses more recently than I have...
When you're given a writing assignment, and told that the finished product is expected to be about 4 to 5 pages long, what assumptions are the professors and TFs making about the formatting? Single spacing or double spacing? (I have spacing set to 1.5; double-spacing looks crappy IMHO.) Block indents of supporting quotes? I assume the default margins and font size Word comes up with are right on; I think monkeying with those would start to look fishy.
I'm not trying to weasel out of more writing-- I have already filled almost 4 of these 5 pages, with 1.5 spacing and extensive quoting from the source material, and yet I still have points that need to be explained and a transition to be bridged. I'm just trying to figure out the scope of what they're expecting. Would directly asking the TF about line spacing sound too much like grade-grubbing?
When you're given a writing assignment, and told that the finished product is expected to be about 4 to 5 pages long, what assumptions are the professors and TFs making about the formatting? Single spacing or double spacing? (I have spacing set to 1.5; double-spacing looks crappy IMHO.) Block indents of supporting quotes? I assume the default margins and font size Word comes up with are right on; I think monkeying with those would start to look fishy.
I'm not trying to weasel out of more writing-- I have already filled almost 4 of these 5 pages, with 1.5 spacing and extensive quoting from the source material, and yet I still have points that need to be explained and a transition to be bridged. I'm just trying to figure out the scope of what they're expecting. Would directly asking the TF about line spacing sound too much like grade-grubbing?