Friday, March 6, 2009

Essay Formatting/Reminders/Pet Peeves

A few odds and ends in no particular order of importance:
1. Save a tree - don't use a cover page
2. Double space with standard margins and font size
3. Don't skip lines between paragraphs
4. Work quotes into the body of your sentences
5. Cite line numbers for quotes. Ex: Milton writes, "xxxxx" (PL IX.321).
6. Use present tense consistently in writing about literature
7. Incorporating supplemental readings counts for 10% of the grade
8. A person/someone etc. does not become they/them - watch your pronoun-antecedent agreement

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