Format checklist
Checklist Don’t turn your paper in unless all of the following are correct:
FORMAT
- White paper with black ink – no other color
- No bold type
- Open a Word document and set up your page with these formatting rules:
- One inch margins are set
- Times New Roman Font
- Font is size 12 throughout – no exceptions
- The ENTIRE paper is ONLY double spaced
– no extra blank lines anywhere
– no single-spacing anywhere
- Your title may not be the title of the piece you are analyzing
- Your title is interesting and insightful and is typed in Times New Roman 12pt Font
- Your essay’s title is without bold or quotation marks or italics or an underline.
- The works cited page is the last numbered page of your paper. (Use page break)
- The words Works Cited are centered one inch from the top and your last name and the last page number are in the upper right ½ inch from the top and 1inch from the right side. On your paper they are not italicized.
- Sources are listed in alphabetical order by author last name, or by the first significant word of the article title, if no author is given. Sources information that exceeds one line of text have a hanging indent for lines two through the conclusion of the source information. NO BULLETS/NO NUMBERS
