I still do not understand this. If I were an English teacher I would tell my students to email me the assignment with the following format

Subject: Assignment 1 - Larry Jones - Romeo and Juliet Meets Robots

Body: [5 paragraphs of text]

Or even better would be for them to have it on a blog, so you get social pressure to do well. Parents might not go for that one though.

Why do we need to be good at margins, double spacing, etc. When was the last time I needed to change the margins on a Word doc? 3 months ago? Waste of time/resources.