Formatting essentials and common mistakes
- 1. Formatting Essentials for Essay and Common Mistakes
- 2. How your document should be formatted Requirements: Double Space Font Heading
- 3. Double Spaced 1. Select your entire text by highlighting 2. Go up to the format bar 3. Click this button. 4. You will get a dropdown menu and select the word double…this should put spaces between each line of your essay.
- 4. Font 1. Select your entire text by highlighting. Make sure it is all highlighted 2. Go to the format bar. Click on this button. 3. Change font to Times New Roman. 4. Click on this button and change to 14 pt
- 5. Heading 1. Your Heading should be on the LEFT Margin of the paper. You can do this by pressing this button in the formatting bar. 2. The Heading should be EXACTLY like the example below (WORD FOR WORD, except for you put YOUR BLOCK # – Capitalization the same and all) Jennifer Tetreault Language Arts Block 7 Miss Tetreault Unit 1 Argumentative Essay 3. There should be NO TITLE FOR THE ESSAY
- 6. Common Mistakes 1. You cannot use the following words in your essays: You Me We Our Or any other First person or second person pronoun
- 7. 2. Indent Each paragraph. In order to indent every paragraph, you need to press the tab button You should only press it once. DON’T USE THE SPACE BAR!!!
- 8. 3. Parenthetical Citations In order to cite the two stories in your essay you need to do a few things. 1. The essay titles and authors should be in your intro somewhere. They should be in quotes, capitalized and the author should be after that “The Framing Game” by Paul Bishop “The Right Kind of House” by Henry Slezar 2. Within the essay, you should be using Parenthetical Citation. That is, after whatever you are quoting, the author’s last name and page # in parentheses. For example: If I just put a quote in from page 5 of “The Framing Game,” my parenthetical citation would look like this: (Bishop, 5)
- 9. 4. Sentences should not begin with conjunctions NONE OF YOUR SENTENCES should begin with any of the following words For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So, Which
- 10. In a formal essay, you SHOULD NOT use contractions A contraction is when you take two words and combine them into one with an apostrophe. Here are some common examples… can’t shouldn’t I’m it’s It is not allowed in formal writing. Write out the word. For example.. cannot should not I am it is