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jolrei:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 July 22, 16:42:29
...it is also unnecessary to make print out web addresses in blue on essays and other documents. No matter how hard I poke the paper, it does not transport me to the relevant website.
You've tried this, have you? I was waiting for any reportage as to its efficacy, before admitting anything.
CheritaChen:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 July 22, 16:42:29
it is also unnecessary to make print out web addresses in blue on essays and other documents. No matter how hard I poke the paper, it does not transport me to the relevant website.
Ugh, another peeve of mine. Minor issue, yes, but everyone seems to just leave MS Word set to all its (obnoxious) default options, then they fail to clean up after its idiosyncrasies when printing out their crapola. I have to look at blue underlined garbage in official documents at work because of people's laziness. If one is trying to emphasize text that is to be typed into a computer interface, one may use a slightly different (preferably sans-serif) font for that text. But polluting documents with extraneous coloring and formatting is eye-abusive and lame.
rohina:
Quote from: jolrei on 2009 July 22, 17:10:32
Quote from: rohina on 2009 July 22, 16:42:29
...it is also unnecessary to make print out web addresses in blue on essays and other documents. No matter how hard I poke the paper, it does not transport me to the relevant website.
You've tried this, have you? I was waiting for any reportage as to its efficacy, before admitting anything.
I generally try it as a comedy routine in class, to mock the retards who wasted coloured ink.
Stitches:
Quote from: CheritaChen on 2009 July 22, 17:36:54
Minor issue, yes, but everyone seems to just leave MS Word set to all its (obnoxious) default options, then they fail to clean up after its idiosyncrasies when printing out their crapola.
I find myself increasingly more frustrated each semester that my professors waste time explaining to students how to reset their default margins in MS Word to MLA standards.
I have also considering refusing to read any assignment that isn't in 11 pt. Arial font when I become a teacher. Death to serifs.
soozelwoozel:
Quote from: Stitches on 2009 July 22, 21:56:54
Quote from: CheritaChen on 2009 July 22, 17:36:54
Minor issue, yes, but everyone seems to just leave MS Word set to all its (obnoxious) default options, then they fail to clean up after its idiosyncrasies when printing out their crapola.
I find myself increasingly more frustrated each semester that my professors waste time explaining to students how to reset their default margins in MS Word to MLA standards.
I have also considering refusing to read any assignment that isn't in 11 pt. Arial font when I become a teacher. Death to serifs.
Generally, we get frowned upon for handing in anything that's not Times New Roman. A few of the profs might let an Ariel or two slip by, but they tend to be the zanier ones, teaching Twentieth Century Dramatic Lesbianism or what not.
The bane of my academic life is footnoting. Or, to be more accurate, formatting footnotes correctly. I once neglected to put an author's first name in a footnote. Ruh-roh.
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