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GENERAL & SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS AND RESOURCES FOR WRITING & CITING

GENERAL & SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
AND RESOURCES FOR
WRITING & CITING

Clear writing is important for all professionals. Below are general directions for written assiignments, specific directions for individual assignments, links to citation guides, and links on writing tips.

Also, remember the Writing Support Center in Moon Library, which is an excellent resource for help, or for sharpening your writing skills.

General directions and guidelines for written assignments

Put your name and the date and the course on your title page.
Use one-inch margins and 12-point font.
Use double-line spacing for essays.
Use page numbers

Use headings if you feel they help block your ideas into clear groupings.

Always start a paper with an introduction and close with a summary/conclusion.

Always state your purpose at the end of the introduction.

Avoid using second person in professional writing. The syllabus is largely written in second person (“you” and ‘”your”) because it is designed as a personal letter from the teaching team to the student. However, because class papers are a more formal and professional form of written communication, second person is not appropriate.

Attribute quotations and information to sources using in-text footnotes or parenthetical citations and following an accepted citation format (i.e., MLA or Chicago Manual of Style, see links below).

Use proper formatting for a bibliography (or works cited): single space entries and use hanging indentation, and leave one line between entries. see example (in Chicago Style)

Use the spell check and the grammar check, but do not substitute these for proofreading. PLEASE PROOFREAD! Read your papers aloud to yourself or to a classmate. Have a friend or roommate read your paper to see if your ideas are clearly articulated-- does he or she understand what you are trying to say?

Specific Directions for the Annotated Bibliography

Identify the source and use single line spacing, with a hanging indent for the citation. (In Microsoft Word, use Format Paragraph, then in the Indentation drop-down menu>>choose Hanging Indent). Here is an example:

BOOK

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
INDENT New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

Then, for the annotation, use double line spacing. If you quote the author, then you must identify the page number in a parenthetical citation.

You are graded on the citation format, so be sure to follow an accepted format (links below) and do not leave out information. The purpose of citation, theoretically, is that one could find the source, or the quotation in the source, based on the bibliographic information provided in a citation. Leaving out a journal title, or a date, or an url defeats the puropose, in a sense, of a citation.

Here are some research tips for finding journal articles from JoAnne Ellis, Moon Library

GENERAL & SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
AND RESOURCES FOR
WRITING & CITING

Clear writing is important for all professionals. Below are general directions for written assiignments, specific directions for individual assignments, links to citation guides, and links on writing tips.
Also, remember the Writing Support Center in Moon Library, which is an excellent resource for help, or for sharpening your writing skills.

General directions and guidelines for written assignments

Put your name and the date and the course on your title page.

Use one-inch margins and 12-point font.

Use double-line spacing for essays.

Use page numbers

Use headings if you feel they help block your ideas into clear groupings.

Always start a paper with an introduction and close with a summary/conclusion.

Always state your purpose at the end of the introduction.

Avoid using second person in professional writing. The syllabus is largely written in second person (“you” and ‘”your”) because it is designed as a personal letter from the teaching team to the student. However, because class papers are a more formal and professional form of written communication, second person is not appropriate.

Attribute quotations and information to sources using in-text footnotes or parenthetical citations and following an accepted citation format (i.e., MLA or Chicago Manual of Style, see links below).

Use proper formatting for a bibliography (or works cited): single space entries and use hanging indentation, and leave one line between entries. see example (in Chicago Style)

Use the spell check and the grammar check, but do not substitute these for proofreading. PLEASE PROOFREAD! Read your papers aloud to yourself or to a classmate. Have a friend or roommate read your paper to see if your ideas are clearly articulated-- does he or she understand what you are trying to say?

Specific Directions for the Annotated Bibliography

Identify the source and use single line spacing, with a hanging indent for the citation. (In Microsoft Word, use Format Paragraph, then in the Indentation drop-down menu>>choose Hanging Indent). Here is an example:

BOOK

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
INDENT New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

Then, for the annotation, use double line spacing. If you quote the author, then you must identify the page number in a parenthetical citation.

You are graded on the citation format, so be sure to follow an accepted format (links below) and do not leave out information. The purpose of citation, theoretically, is that one could find the source, or the quotation in the source, based on the bibliographic information provided in a citation. Leaving out a journal title, or a date, or an url defeats the puropose, in a sense, of a citation.

Here are some research tips for finding journal articles from JoAnne Ellis, Moon Library

Here is the link to Ulriches to check whether a journal is peer reviewed. Note: Just because is journal is peer-reviewed does not mean that a particular article is peer reviewed: opinion essays and book reviews are also included in journals, but may not be used for this assignment.

Links to Citation Guides

Indiana University Bloomington Writing Tutorial Services ~ MLA Style

University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center ~ Chicago Style

A Research Guide for Students, by I. Lee

Purdue Online Writing Lab

Although it is best if you learn citation format by practicing, this site may help you get the "hang of it" in MLA or APA format: citation machince.net

Links to Writing Centers for Writing Tips
(also applicapble to your WCIM Presentation)

University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center ~Planning and Writing a Research Paper

Indiana University Bloomington Writing Tutorial Services ~ How to Write aThesis Statement

University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center ~Developing a Thesis Statement

University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center ~Thesis and Purpose Statements