Typing: One or Two Spaces?

Yep..

I was also taught 2 spaces after a fullstop (period) when ending a sentence (but not after abbreviations), and 1 after all other punctuation. So your Prof. (1 space here) is tosspot. (New sentence – 2 spaces) I’d ask for my work to be re-checked. evaluated or whatever and ask for clarification on the correct manner of composing work.

Make a big issue of it!!

I am no expert but I believe one space is the norm. Wether it’s right or not, that’s what I was taught and I think that’s what the majority of people do when typing.

…the people that still type properly anyway…

I’ve always done one space. I feel like two spaces is kind of unnecessary unless you’re trying to elongate a paper.

Two spaces is definitely the norm for academic papers. Publications generally use one space.

In the days of the typewriter, people were taught to put two spaces after a fullstop (or period as some call it) because the spaces weren’t large enough and it could make the writing look cramped if you only used one space. My mother still uses two spaces because she was a secretary and always typed like that.

When people started using computer, they continued to do the double space after a fullstop, but eventually people realised that you don’t actually need to do that on computers, so they stopped doing it. Really, putting in two spaces is a waste of time because computers format it so the space is big enough.

That said, your prof is a complete douche for taking off points for something like that. You should take it back and kick up some dirt about it because that’s absolute BS.