Glad you enjoyed it!  I went from two spaces to one, but now I'll have to make 
the effort to go back to two. 

And glad to see that TIPS is still alive.

Miguel (on TIPS since '97).

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From: Kenneth Steele [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 1:41 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] One space or two after a period?

Hi Miguel:

Thanks for posting the url.  The issue reminds me of a conversation I had about 
2 weeks ago at the end of a class.  A student came up to me after class and 
said that she had to ask me an important question.  She had an earnest look on 
her face, and the class had been on auditory physiology and deafness.  I 
thought the question would be about her or her parents/grandparents’ hearing 
issues.  Here was her question:

“One space or two”?

I laughed heartily and said I was a two-space guy.  She then proceeded to tell 
me about her issue.  She was a writer and had been using the two-space rule all 
of her life.  But she was taking a psychology course currently and being told 
(graded down) for not using the 1-space rule.  I assured her that I had never 
heard of a manuscript being rejected because the writer was not in compliance 
with the journal’s policy on one space or two spaces after a period.

At that moment, two more undergraduates entered into the discussion about the 
merits of the 1-space vs. 2-space rule.  There was much passion about the 
issue.  I could have been listening to a Red Sox vs. Yankees discussion in a 
bar.

Ken

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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.                  
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Professor
Department of Psychology          http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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On May 5, 2018, at 1:16 PM, Miguel Roig 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

The APA Manual states two spaces are better than one. What does the research 
say?  Check it out: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/04/one-space-between-each-sentence-they-said-science-just-proved-them-wrong-2/?utm_term=.efbf00d80b3e
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