Spacing in Academic/Professional Writing

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by Caleb Rose1 view·Updated Jan 25, 2021
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  1. All right, so in this video, we're gonna be going
  2. over spacing in professional academic grading.
  3. Um, you might wonder why this video so long?
  4. We're just talking about spaces and probably a couple of
  5. words, right?
  6. It's not even a notes document because it's so simple.
  7. Well, we're going to spend a little bit of the
  8. video talking about academic and professional writing or the right
  9. way to right now.
  10. Let me first start with one of my pet peeves.
  11. You ready?
  12. I hate teachers that say, this is the Onley way
  13. too right?
  14. Hey Hmm.
  15. Because here's the thing.
  16. It's not, and you know that.
  17. And I know that I don't have to use capitalization
  18. when I am messaging my friend on Facebook, I don't
  19. I hardly ever dio, and sometimes I forget a capital.
  20. Sometimes I forget punctuation or I spell a word wrong
  21. on social media, right?
  22. Or when I'm texting my dad sometimes sometimes I will
  23. use ah bunch of exclamation points to show I'm really
  24. excited. Eight.
  25. And none of that is wrong, but we lose points
  26. forward in English class.
  27. That's because we are working with two different audiences and
  28. for two different purposes.
  29. So our when we are writing in English class there,
  30. there's a right way to write because or there isn't
  31. the right.
  32. So we'll be back up on that when we write
  33. in English class were given rubles like capitalization and punctuation,
  34. commas and sentence structure and all this stuff because that's
  35. what is expected for an academic or professional for those
  36. of you that are wanting to go straight into the
  37. job force instead of going on to university or go
  38. into the military.
  39. That's what is expected of an academic or a professional,
  40. uh, environment.
  41. You're expected to use thes skills.
  42. You're not expected to use them all the time.
  43. But in my class and other classes you are that
  44. includes when your messaging me, too, because I'm not your
  45. best friend and we're not going to go to karaoke
  46. on Friday night or whatever you are doing with your
  47. friends. Um, and I miss karaoke, but so you wanna
  48. make sure that even when you're messaging me, you're still
  49. trying to use correct punctuation, capitalization, all the rules and
  50. things we talked about in class.
  51. Now we should also talk about purpose, right?
  52. Because you'll probably notice.
  53. Some of the authors we read use grammar and capitalization
  54. and sometimes even spelling.
  55. That doesn't really make sense, right?
  56. It's wrong dramatically, and that's because they're not writing in
  57. a professional or academic environment.
  58. We are reading them in a professional academic writing, but
  59. very few people right for classrooms.
  60. Very people write a book and below and are like,
  61. Ooh, bunch of 10th grade or ninth grade.
  62. We're third graders air going to sit around and read
  63. this right.
  64. They write the book to be entertaining.
  65. Ah, lot of authors write the book to make money.
  66. Um, because you can't produce art without money.
  67. Um, but they write the book to make a statement.
  68. Very rarely is it written for an audience.
  69. However, we are reading it in a professional academic writing.
  70. So that's why when author makes an error, it's not
  71. always an error.
  72. It is a they are writing in a different way
  73. than we are.
  74. So when I say words like the spacing rules that
  75. we're gonna go over in just a moment, it's not
  76. that you're what you've been doing is wrong, or if
  77. you mess this up outside of class, it's wrong.
  78. But when you mess it up inside a class, it
  79. is wrong because it's an academic or professional environment.
  80. So let's just get onto it with words.
  81. There's a single space between each word boom Just their
  82. space is space.
  83. Always space.
  84. Easy thing to get right Never lose points on that
  85. Another thing.
  86. We should never lose points on sentences.
  87. There is no space before punctuation, but that what?
  88. But there is always a space after punctuation.
  89. Now it didn't show up here.
  90. But just so you know, if you're listening to the
  91. video, you'll know this.
  92. The key word for this video is shall the key
  93. word for this video is shall That's S h A
  94. l l Shall you write that down?
  95. Key word for the video is shall S h l
  96. l. Let's move on to paragraphs for our last little
  97. bit. So after each paragraph, there should be a line
  98. break to have a line break.
  99. You will need to hit the enter button twice before
  100. starting your next paragraph so that there is a clear
  101. line between each paragraph.
  102. Paragraph should also be indented by hitting the tab key
  103. and written using double space so some quick things on
  104. that you'll notice.
  105. In between these two paragraphs, there's like a blank line
  106. where there is no text.
  107. We should always have that in between each paragraph, so
  108. it shouldn't be just right under.
  109. There should always be that blank lines called a line
  110. break. We should also indented paragraphs and use double space.
  111. The way we use double space on Google docks or
  112. onward is by going.
  113. So in this video we talked about what academic professional
  114. writing is.
  115. We talked about words on the spacing between them.
  116. We talked about the spacing between sentences, and we talked
  117. about the spacing between paragraphs.
  118. I'll see you in the next video, and until then,
  119. keep learning.