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Paper
Paper must be white, 81/2 “X 11” , and stapled together in the left-hand
corner.
All papers should be double-spaced and typed, if possible. The writing
on first page should begin about 1/4 of the way down the page. All
pages should be numbered except the title page and the first page.
Page numbers should be placed in the upper right-hand corner.
Referencing
within your essay
In research papers or any other writing that borrows information from
other sources, the borrowed information must be clearly documented.
Quotations, summaries, statistics or anything not considered common
knowledge is called borrowed information. The easiest way of documenting
your sources is to use in-text citations. The reference is given in
the text of the paper instead of using footnotes or endnotes. This
means that your place your source on parenthesis (brackets) immediately
after the borrowed information in your text and before any line punctuation.
The information contained in the citation should be as follows:
( Author’s last name page number)
e.g. (Collins 134)
No comma is required between the two pieces of information.
If you are citing a work without a named author, use either the title
of the book or the title of the article in place of the author’s name.
Remember that titles of books need to be underlined or in italics
and that titles of articles should be placed in “quotation marks”.
If you are citing an Internet site, you may simply put the word Internet
in brackets. If you have more than one Internet site in your works
cited list, you must put the website URL in brackets.
Works Cited page
Title this page Works Cited. This page should be numbered, as should
all other pages in your essay (except the first page which should
not be numbered), in the upper right hand corner. Leave two lines
in between the title of the page and your first source. Sources should
be placed in alphabetical order on this page by last names of the
author(s). If a source has no author or editor, alphabetize by the
first word of the title other than a, an or the.
Do not indent the first line of each entry, but indent each subsequent
line (use the TAB key). Put a space between each entry.
Quotations
Short quotations (three lines or less) are included within the text
of the essay.
e.g.
The Buddhist faith had a very interesting start. “In the beginning
Buddha found enlightenment under the bodhi tree, near what is now
Nepal” (McDowell 75).
Long quotations (three lines or more) are set apart from the text
of the essay, as follows:
Devout
Buddhists follow the teachings of the Four Noble truths an Eightfold
Path. Each contains the essence that units all Buddists today: Life
is full of suffering; that most of that suffering, including
the fear of earth, can be traced to “desire”, the man’s habit
of seeing everything through the prism of the self and its well-being;
that this craving can be transcended, leading to peace and eventually
to an exalted state of full enlightenment called Nirvana (McDowell
71).
Outline
The following information should be included in your outline. Remember
to keep words and phrasing consistent; for example, if you write your
first main topic in sentence form, write everything else in sentence
form.
Topic of essay
I. First main idea
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
II. Second main idea
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
III. Third main idea
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
IV. Conclusion
Example (topic is a person)
Leonardo da Vinci
I. Who
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
II. What / When / Where / How
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
III. Why
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
IV. Conclusion - summary
Example (topic is an event)
September 11, 2001
I. What / When / Where / How
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
II. Who
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
III. Why
1. First supporting fact / detail
2. Second supporting fact / detail
3. Third supporting fact / detail
IV. Conclusion - summary
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