Hey dudes. So it seems that you either indent the first line of each paragraph OR don't indent it but make a line break. I have used a combination of the two... indenting every time and also using line breaks to seperate topics. Is that "wrong"? Its for my a final-year project in Biochemistry, and its too later to ask my project director.

Thanks dudes

--Joe

p.s. the papers I've checked just now use one of the two structures I suggested

never mind! Its handed in now.

I've always used the no-indent, paragraphs-spaced format when writing formal/business papers/letters. Everything starts on the left margin.

I remember something about MLA style or some other styles back in high school.

What I did in the end was to indent every paragraph except the first one following a heading, a figure, or a similar break in the text. I don't want to think about it now because I didn't have time to read through it all once I printed the required three copies and so I bet its full of mistakes, maybe even whole disjointed paragraphs and sentences left half-done from my editting! Argh!

Glad you got it finished. But, one cardinal rule I leared about research-type papers is you must be consistent throughout. If you indent one paragraph, indent them all. If you align one paragraph left, align all left.