Word Processing vs. Typing
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I try to know things.
Really people, I try to know things. Many people in my class did not know what a blog was. But I did, because I try to know things. But even I thought I had a good grasp on proper typing/word processing rules.
I thought wrong.
My first problem is that I, along with my classmates, assumed that word processing was the same thing as typing. You know, where you indent. And then you put two spaces between a . and the beginning of the next sentence.
According to my teacher, if you are word processing, you don’t indent. There is also only one space after a period, or any other piece of punctuation.
I had never heard this, and actually felt guilty about my lack of paragraphing hear at the Ebjournal.
It wouldn’t bother me so much, except now I’m going to have to ask every single teacher I have for the next year and a half if I should be indenting my paragraphs, because none of my college-educated, Word-wielding classmates had ever heard that, much less been told it’s the proper form, so how am I supposed to know what my professors require without looking like a total dumbass. Really, here’s the scenario:
Me: “Uh, Professor McKnowsalot? Do you want us to indent our paragraphs when we’re word processing on mulitple intelligences?”
Prof: “You are dumb. You should know the answer to that. You are teaching children? How do you even have a job?”
Me: “But, I was told, and I just don’t know…”
Prof: “Of course you indent!”
Me: (twitching and frothing)
(Scene repeats in various forms at every new class I have)
These are the stresses I don’t need to face as I get ready to read billions of pages for my classes. AND, what do I teach to my kids? They still need to write paragraphs. Such a dilemma. Thoughts, comments?
I’M LEARNING SO MUCH IN GRAD SCHOOL! {/snark}
