How To: Head Your Paper
…by popular demand:
- Font: Times New Roman or Calibri, 12pt
- Paragraph: Double-spaced, half inch indentation
- Page Layout: One inch margins all around; last name and page number in Header section (see below for explanation); student name, etc. same size and spacing as Paragraph; no space before or after Essay Title (original, not the name of the work you’re writing over)
- Quotations Shorter Than Three Typed Lines: Quotation marks around all words pulled verbatim from the work, citations after direct quotations and paraphrasing, citation (author’s name and page number in parentheses) before the final punctuation
- Quotations Longer Than Three Typed Lines: No quotation marks, citation in parentheses after final punctuation, indented 1″ (see illustration).
- Adding Last Name/Page Number to Header:
- 1. Double click in header area (or click View in the toolbar, then Header/Footer)
- 2. Align your text to the right side (Click :
) - 3. Type your last name (no first name, comma, or other punctuation)
- 4. Hit the spacebar once
- 5. Go to View in the toolbar, then Header/Footer, then Insert Page Number:
- 6. Click Close on the Header/Footer toolbar or double click in the body of your paper to return
[This post was WinsomeWiki’d on 4 Jul. 2009.]
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would using ‘we’ in an analysis be acceptable or can the students only use 3rd person pronouns like
September 7, 2010 at 9:46 pm
The general answer is no, but it (like all things) depends. Why do you want to include your audience in the analysis?
If you are trying to give your audience a guided tour (“And in the third paragraph we see the author is making a pathetic appeal…”), the answer is no.
If you are including yourself in the audience (“We teenagers/students/etc. no longer buy into such ironic ethical appeals”) the answer is still no, because you need to remain objective.
Heh. Maybe you ought to tell me the context…
September 12, 2010 at 3:56 pm
in our essays is it appropriate to use the name gould and refer to his name instead of ‘the author’?
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Definitely. Always begin your analysis with the author’s name and the title of the work. Subsequent to that, “Gould,” “the author,” and “he” are all acceptable.
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