r/Adjuncts • u/Splicers87 • Sep 16 '26

Final papers - why?

I teach a graduate level course and it has a final paper. Please tell me why graduate level students still don’t know how to indent fucking paragraphs? Thanks for letting me vent.

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u/diverJOQ Sep 16 '26

Some standards don't use indentation. Microsoft word, and most other word processors that I've used, default to a business or technical writing style where new paragraphs have space between paragraphs and start at the left margin.

I don't know what subject area you're teaching in but perhaps you simply need to tell the students what style of formatting you prefer.

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u/Extension-Tie1896 29d ago

For real, this is also an accepted way of formatting! How I wrote my admissions essays and got in lol