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General Formatting Guidelines for All Essays
General Formatting Guidelines for All Essays
Essay Formatting All essays must be submitted to Turnitin through our course Blackboard site on their assigned dates as indicated on the Course Schedule in the syllabus. This provides a record of your submission, serves as way of identifying potential issues with plagiarism, and offers a means for you to receive enhanced feedback (including supplementary instructional links and other information.) In addition, essays should be formatted according to the criteria below:
Font: 12 point, Times New Roman
Double-spaced (Make sure that there’s a space between the title and body of the paper and that there are not any extra spaces between paragraphs.)
The margins should be 1 inch on all sides. (This is the default in most word processing programs). Be sure to set the margins manually rather than “justifying” the document.
The paper heading should appear in the upper left-hand corner (of the first page only) and include the following: your name, course title, instructor’s name, & date of submission.
Rather than a generic title (e.g. “Close Analysis Essay”) the title should hint directly at your thesis (exp. The Story I Want to Believe: The Role of Memory in The Handmaid’s Tale).
Include your last name & page number in the upper right-hand corner on every page after the first. (Select “different first page header” in your word processing program.)
All sources should be appropriately cited according to the most recent MLA Style guidelines, which in most instances will mean using an in-text parenthetical citation along with a corresponding listing on the “Works Cited” page. You can find additional information on citation through The Purdue Online Writing lab (owl.english.purdue.edu), and in the Supplementary Writing Tools folder on Blackboard.

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