The following instructions may seem finicky. Your adherence to them, however, will greatly
help me to read and properly grade your paper.
If it is to be submitted in printed form, the paper should be double-spaced. Use
honest font size and margins. One-inch margins all around and 12-point type is a good
norm. Using large fonts and margins to pad out a too-short paper is both obvious and
upsetting to me.
Number your pages. If you can't figure out how to make your word processor do it, then do it
by hand.
Staple the sheets together.
Put your name on the paper.
Remember: I expect students to produce written work that is focused, well-developed,
organized, and relatively free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. Papers that fall
short of this standard may be returned for revision. [ more ]
Don't plagiarize. The availability of material on the Internet
that can be easily copied and pasted has blurred the distinction between "plagiarism" and
source. Text that you copy directly from somewhere must be placed inside quotation marks
and attributed to its source. Plagiarism is considered academic misconduct. [ more ]
Need some writing help?
Get better
grades by eliminating mistakes. How can you do that? Try proofreading better. [
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