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How to Format Your Essay
One of the most common problems we see with essays posted here is improper FORMATTING. I have therefore put together this list of formatting tips for you to follow BEFORE you submit your essay to this forum for others to read and comment on. Remember, the real ETS essay scorer reads hundreds of essays every week and really, really appreciates nice formatting. Essays submitted here that do NOT follow these formatting rules will receive lower scores (if somebody offers a score) and will incur the disdain of fellow forum members. Yes, believe it or not, punctuation IS very, very important in English. There’s a lot more for me to say, so you should check this topic regularly for updates. The Most Important ETS Essay Formatting Rules This list was compiled by Erin with the help of all the visitors to the TestMagic forums.
You will notice in these forums that I (Erin Billy) usually skip a line between paragraphs, but that I do not use any spaces at the beginning of a new paragraph. I do this because this is an Internet discussion forum. When I have to write a formal paper, however, I skip one line between paragraphs and indent five spaces.
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Hi Dusty, welcome to TM
!!!!I myself have taken the test. I did one 'Enter' between the paragraphs and no spaces at the beginning of each para . And I think that's enough to realize the desperation between them. Actually I got 5.0 (not high but not too bad ) for my essay and I don't think the score givers cost me 1.0 for that 'mistake' .-phuong- |
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Re: How to format your essay
Erin, thanks for taking your time to give some invaluable advice which could be taken for granted. I had a 6.0 in my TOEFL test and I used single spacing between paragraphs.
In your recommendation for single spacing you said: 'Hit "Enter" twice at the end of every paragraph. Doing this will create a space...' Later, you seem to reject this very pattern when you said: " I (Erin Billy) usually skip a line between paragraphs, but that I do not use any spaces at the beginning of a new paragraph...I do this because... " Kindly advice if this option requires both a paragraph spacing AND identation. |
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Erin, It is a great post and given a lot of info for formatting.... I am non native speaker and never really wrote essays...I am giving my GMAT in AUG 2006..Could you please guide me how can I do better in AWA and what resources you recommned me...I am sorry if this is covered already some where...I browsed most of the topics in this forum but couldnt get the info.
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