bchen8341 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 So, we're supposed to send submit the personal narrative as a .txt file, but the thing is in notepad each line can hold an infinite number of words, so when I copy paste my essay from word to notepad, the whole essay appears in only a few lines (1 line per paragraph). Are we supposed to manually break down the lines to form readable paragraphs, or just leave them like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmr Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 You can try typing/pasting everything in Word and saving it as a .txt file. This preserves some of the formatting, i.e. no infinite line lengths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakoulias Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 So, we're supposed to send submit the personal narrative as a .txt file, but the thing is in notepad each line can hold an infinite number of words, so when I copy paste my essay from word to notepad, the whole essay appears in only a few lines (1 line per paragraph). Are we supposed to manually break down the lines to form readable paragraphs, or just leave them like that? It's fine to leave it in the 1 line per paragraph format. When they need to read it, they'll just turn the "word wrap" feature on. I believe the McGill AED Twitter feed mentioned this back in November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bchen8341 Posted January 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Thank you both for your quick answers. I didn't know about the word wrap function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjsdefz Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 Right, word-wrap. I am not sure if they care about the font size and style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r201 Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Sorry Bchen8341 for using your thread to post this quick question, but I think it's a bit related to the format too. They say that the personal narrative should be less than 1000 words; I just wanted to know if they consider a contraction (e.g. "it's") as one word or two words. Since microsoft word consider it as one word, I assumed it wouldn't be a problem, but since the pesonnal narrative format in txt, I don't know how will they proceed to determine it (btw, my personnal narrative is 995 words, so I Have a big problem if contractions are 2 words); Is it the same thing for french too, for example "j'ai". Thanks in advance Good luck to all with your applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakoulias Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Sorry Bchen8341 for using your thread to post this quick question, but I think it's a bit related to the format too. They say that the personal narrative should be less than 1000 words; I just wanted to know if they consider a contraction (e.g. "it's") as one word or two words. Since microsoft word consider it as one word, I assumed it wouldn't be a problem, but since the pesonnal narrative format in txt, I don't know how will they proceed to determine it (btw, my personnal narrative is 995 words, so I Have a big problem if contractions are 2 words); Is it the same thing for french too, for example "j'ai". Thanks in advance Good luck to all with your applications By definition, a contraction is condensing two words into a single one, so you should be fine the way you have it. I would assume that if McGill checks the word count of the narratives, they'd be using the same word count tool. You could always trim a few words if you wanted to be extra sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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