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Originally posted by Colin
Never had a teacher that insisted on Times New Roman.
Surprisingly, I had a teacher once that insisted on sans-serif fonts; of course, since I prefer those anyways, that's no problem. 
I think if I had to, I'd probably insist on a fixed-width font like Fixedsys or Courier New.
Not the most "professional" font by a long shot, but you'd at least give some sort of choice without people using fonts that are excessively wide or narrow. (I could just imagine someone using Copperplate Gothic or something on a paper to lengthen it... ugh.)
As for fonts being insisted... I usually could get away with Arial or Georgia by saying my copy of Times New Roman was corrupt (which it actually was at one point). 
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I don't have a problem with fixed-width... just anything but serif. 
I'm just sick of seeing Times New Roman all over the damn place, and I bet certain teachers are too.
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Originally posted by Colin
I'm just sick of seeing Times New Roman all over the damn place, and I bet certain teachers are too.
I bet even the ones that require it are, they just say that so people don't use outlandish fonts. As long as you're using a font that looks fairly normal (such as Tahoma, Calibri, Georgia... probably Calibri since it's Word 2007's default though) and not something like Snowdrift or French Script MT they won't complain one bit.
But I've never really had a nightmarish experience with a teacher at all, so... yeah.
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I don't particularly like the look of Courier New. It seems rather ugly to me 
TNR was ugly on computer screens before anti-aliasing. Now it's rather overused but I still think it's OK
And my teachers are usually pretty picky. Must be TNR, 12 point, 1-inch margins, double spaced. Some, especially in high school and earlier, required headings and such in a particular format at the top. I even had a teacher who insisted on papers being in ink, in cursive (no computers)! 
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| |  Originally posted by Terra
And my teachers are usually pretty picky. Must be TNR, 12 point, 1-inch margins, double spaced. Some, especially in high school and earlier, required headings and such in a particular format at the top. I even had a teacher who insisted on papers being in ink, in cursive (no computers)!
I have had some teachers like this that drove me crazy. I didn't care if they prefered one style of font with a bunch of specific requirements, if it was readalbe, I would do it. But that usually got points off of it when it was graded...
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Originally posted by Terra
a teacher who insisted on papers being in ink, in cursive (no computers)!
Yeah, fuck that. I'm typing it so you can actually see what the hell I wrote anyway... better getting a 90 or something due to not following instructions exactly than a 0 (like happened once) because my writing was unreadable.
Printing is acceptable, I guess, though...
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The thing with him was, we could only do the work in class, we couldn't take it home. Like, the teacher would collect the unfinished papers at the end of class, supposedly to prevent plagiarism. It was high school, so no student laptops. And I suck at cursive because I otherwise print or type everything.
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| | Originally posted by Schala
Yea... I hardly ever write in cursive anymore, I usually print everything...
I never really used cursive that often after about 5th grade, and I actually write my Cyrillic in print rather than cursive 
It's also annoying how teachers can get picky about some things, but I never had any who were picky about something like margins...
I learned around third grade, and after that, was bever taught it again. And then I get teachers that tell me I should know it very well and should use it for everything. Which makes no sense, because by the time they start telling me this, I've already forgot how to write it...
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Originally posted by Schala
It's also annoying how teachers can get picky about some things, but I never had any who were picky about something like margins...
Mine were picky about margins. I've gotten points off because they weren't 1-inch, or because the header made the top margin over 1 inch Seriously, who cares? Luckily I haven't had many like this. English teachers seem to be the most picky when it comes to formatting.
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