Formatting Your Rough Draft / Final Times New Roman 12 pt Double spaced Introduction must have at least 5 sentences End the introduction with your thesis statement Must be at least 2 full pages in length Parenthetical citations must follow ALL quotes and paraphrases Header: Last name, page number

Works Cited Page Should be arranged alphabetically according to authors’ last names If a work has no author, use the title to help you alphabetize Don’t list titles like “Sir” or “Dr.” Do not count “the”, “a”, or “an” as a first word. If an entry takes up more than one line, be sure to make the entry a “hanging indent” Double space below entries Do not enlarge font size or bold anything

Works Cited (con’t) Citing a database: Last, First M. “Article Title.” Database Name. Database publisher, Date Month Year Published. Web. Date Month Year Accessed. Example: Roberts, David. "The Total Work of Art in European Modernism." Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2011. JSTOR. Web. 21 Dec. 2012.

Works Cited (con’t) Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper Should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper

Works Cited (con’t) Use www.easybib.com or www.citationmachine.net

Credible Periodical Sources Great sources: NPR BBC The Washington Post The New York Times ABS News NBC News Reuters Local newspapers

Credible Periodical Sources Good sources The Atlantic Slate The Hill The Wall Street Journal The Guardian The Fiscal Times CNN USA today

Credible Periodical Sources Okay sources (some bias so be careful!) MSNBC The Huffington Post Fox News

Credible Periodical Sources DO NOT USE THESE Occupy Democrats Addicting Info Natural News The Blaze Infowars Daily Caller Breitbart David Wolfe Blogs or opinion pieces in any periodical