- Your name,
- Course and section number (AP -3, for example)
- Turnitin receipt number,
- Word count (your word processing program should perform this last task for you automatically).
FORMATTING:
- Use 12-point font
- Choose a font with serifs (Times New Roman, for example)
- Set 1 inch margins all round
- Give your paper a title which indicates its subject; when writing about literature, give more than just the name of the text you are writing about.
- Double space text
- For quotations of FIVE lines or longer, block the passage with one and one-half inch margins and single spacing.
- Remember to put novel and play titles in italics, poem and short story titles in quotation marks, and to give your paper a title different from the literary work it discusses.
- Use American spelling and usage: double quotation marks, not single; toward, not towards; judgment, not judgement; gray, not grey; honor, not honour, and so on.
- Avoid "naked" pronouns: this, that, which.
- Whenever possible, omit who, which, and that--make the relative clause either the main clause or a participial phrase.
- Simplify your language; use everyday words to express important ideas.
- Omit unnecessary words from your sentences, unnecessary sentences from your paragraphs, unnecessary paragraphs from your essays. Be studious of brevity.
- Whenever you face a choice between a general term and a specific word, opt for the latter.
