Suggested Style Sheet for Semester Paper

Quotes:

-Avoid long quotes and block quotes that go on for more than 4 lines.

-Otherwise, the best use of quotes is to describe something, or to add the perspective of someone from that time period.

-You can always just pick out a section of a statement, use quotation marks, and then finish in your own words.

-Remember that paraphrasing (or putting something in your own words) works best most of the time. Don’t over-quote.

Don’t Plagiarize—attribute your sources accurately

-It goes without saying that I expect that the work that you turn in is your own, and not someone else’s.

Citations:

-Let’s keep this simple, everyone. Use the format below, *instead* of footnotes and endnotes.

“quotation…” (author, page #).

-Note that you insert a space after the end quote, then in parentheses you simply type the author’s last name, followed by a comma, then a page # like 9. Place a period outside the end parens.

Works Cited page:

For this simply list your sources on a separate page at the end of the paper.

Last name, First name. Title (underlined) (Publisher city: Publisher Comp., Year).

for ex.

Aley, Ginette. The American South (Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 2002).

If it is a web address that you are citing, place these at the bottom of your list, and insert the web address, followed by the actual name of the site.

Please contact me if you have further questions.