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Last Minute Paper Tips Humanities 8
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Remember… 12 font Time New Roman, Arial font 1 in or 2cm margins
Double spaced Indent paragraphs Same spacing between paragraphs Have a title Put your name on the paper me a copy
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Color Coding Paraphrased information will be in black (should be cited) Direct quotations will be in red with quotation marks (should be cited) or referenced. Your original ideas will be in blue, common knowledge will be in blue. No need for citations
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Basic Mistakes to Avoid
No use of first person, no I statements, no reference to yourself! Only okay if in an anecdote Spell out number that are less than 100. Seventy-five percent Do not use contractions, no can’t, don’t, won’t etc. Spell it out! No use of the word get Look at your verb structures, if two verbs are together do they need to be? Can you say it in a way with one?
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Basic Revision of Internal Citation
Internal citation comes at the end of the sentence with the citable information You cannot use one citation for two sentences, either combine them or cite both You cite in parenthesis then add the period You cite author page number (Smith 24). For books. You cite website title if no author (CIA World Factbook). No Indiastat Look at the MLA guide online to be sure your internal citation is correct, it is very easy for me to see when it is wrong and really, no excuses for mistakes!
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Works cited It is alphabetical, it mixes all of the different types of sources The second line is indented Use
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Work Cited : Your Title WORK CITED Braun, Joachim. "Accelerating Progress towards Reducing Child Malnutrition in India." Child Malnutrition in India. January International Food Policy Research Institute. 20 Apr 2009 < rition.pdf>. "India." CIA - The World Factbook. 9 April, Central Intelligence Agency. 15 Apr 2009 < world-factbook/geos/in.html>.
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Your Paper and the Paragraphs
Vary sentence length Order your arguments, use your strongest first, weakest second, and second strongest last. Do the same with the order of your paragraphs, start with your strongest reason first, weakest second, and second strongest last. Do you have transitions?
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Your voice and another pair of eyes!
Go home, make your edits Read it out loud to yourself, what mistakes do you hear? Fix them Give your paper to a parent or older sibling What mistakes can they find Fix those Walk away Look at it one more time, fix those mistakes Have it printed when you arrive to class in color
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