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timark_uk
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Ben, John, I'm not having a go at you, if that's what you think. I would've thought that your previous years on your respective courses would've prepared you for your dissertation writing.
It appears not.
Mark
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| Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:23 am |
 
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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I know your not having a go Mark  Personally, all of my educational life, I've been told "You'll get the hang of it". Nobody has sat down and shown me what they wanted, instead just marked me low and told me to improve...
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| Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:28 am |
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Fogmeister
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You could always use the new Photoshop feature to do it for you... PS Content aware fill - CLICKY!
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| Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:51 am |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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tombolt
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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Shift+return is a soft return. It means to start a new line, but not a new paragraph.
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John_Vella
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Didn't think it for one moment Mark, but we haven't been told anything. We do have a meeting after our exams next month which should provide us with some more information though. _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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rustybucket
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Sorry but it's not that easy. It depends on the country you're in, the type of document, the subject you're writing about, the length of the document and the intended recipient(s) For long academic scientific papers, it varies wildly from subject to subject. Your best bet is to go to the library and find some papers submitted recently from your department. _________________Jim
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ChurchCat
Doesn't have much of a life
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If it matters to that degree then there will be instructions on the presentation of such papers available from the head office of the department you are in. Some papers may have to have double spacing some single some one and a half. Some may require a new chapter to be on a new page and so on. However my simple rule of thumb holds true for most cases. _________________A Mac user 
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EddArmitage
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Our uni provides LaTeX *.sty files for dissertations, and guidelines for those using word-processors.
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AlunD
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sensible approach.
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forquare1
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Our department was really enthusiastic about people using LaTeX, but they haven't provided a style, not even for the Bibliography, which I'm rather angry at... I've heavily customised the report doc class so that it conforms to the layout guidelines set out by the department.
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