<p>I'm typing my essays on Word and copy-pasting it onto the box on the online app. Am I supposed to double space my essays?</p>
<p>I've talked with an educational consultant about that and she told me to have my son single space the essay - which he did. She also suggested to have him do it justified - but as a graphic designer, I think justified is HORRIBLE (for aesthetics for readability) - so I begged him to do it flush left, rag right :-)</p>
<p>When I copy and paste my double spaced essay onto the box, it becomes single spaced and loses the indention and stuff. What do people normally do? Do they manually double space it?</p>
<p>Normally people won't double space it. Double spacing in academics is usually so that graders have room to write comments/make corrections. But I think adcoms will just be reading it to get a general gist. Don't worry about spacing.</p>
<p>It should be noted that double spacing has been shown to be easier to read...</p>
<p>When DD put her essays into the applications to send online, a lot of things had to be "fixed". Something about going from Word to html format made all of her quotation marks come up as little squares. Also there were no paragraph spaces. SO she just went in and edited the document...putting the quotation marks in, and a double space between paragraphs only. She left the rest single spaced. BUT she thought it made it easier to read.</p>