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fellmamaMary's Sem Paper: A Tale of Woe.
Mary's Seminar Paper was to be between 24 and 25 pages in length. NO LESS than three-quarters of the 24th page to be filled; no MORE than the very last line of the 25th page. This is a DEPARTMENTAL requirement.
Mary wrote and wrote and wrote and thought she wouldn't have a long enough paper, because she had only seventeen full pages written when she woke up this morning.
Boy was SHE in for a surprise.
Length of paper with 12-pt. font and 1.25" margins: 28 pages and two lines.
Length of paper with all double spaces after periods converted to single spaces: 27 and three-quarters pages.
Length of paper with 1" margins (the actual size requested by the professor): 26 and a half pages.
Length of paper with .9" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 pages and two lines.
Final length of paper with 1.1" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 and a half pages.
If Kyra takes a ruler to Mary's margins, Mary is going to beat her to death with her copy of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume One.
Mary's Seminar Paper was to be between 24 and 25 pages in length. NO LESS than three-quarters of the 24th page to be filled; no MORE than the very last line of the 25th page. This is a DEPARTMENTAL requirement.
Mary wrote and wrote and wrote and thought she wouldn't have a long enough paper, because she had only seventeen full pages written when she woke up this morning.
Boy was SHE in for a surprise.
Length of paper with 12-pt. font and 1.25" margins: 28 pages and two lines.
Length of paper with all double spaces after periods converted to single spaces: 27 and three-quarters pages.
Length of paper with 1" margins (the actual size requested by the professor): 26 and a half pages.
Length of paper with .9" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 pages and two lines.
Final length of paper with 1.1" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 and a half pages.
If Kyra takes a ruler to Mary's margins, Mary is going to beat her to death with her copy of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume One.
