Page Set Up
This is the required margin size at the top, bottom, and both sides.
What is one inch?
These four items appear on separate lines at the upper left of the first page, before the title.
What are your name, instructor’s name, course name and number, and date?
The works-cited list belongs here in relation to the paper and any endnotes.
What is at the end of the paper, after any endnotes?
Place tables and illustrations as close as possible to this part of the paper.
What is the text to which they relate?
When a list is easily understood within a sentence, this format is preferred over a vertical list.
What is integrating the list into the prose?
For a printed paper, use this color and size of paper.
What is white, 8½-by-11-inch paper?
The chapter permits this font-size range unless your instructor specifies otherwise.
What is 11–13 points?
The paper’s title belongs in this horizontal position on a new double-spaced line.
What is centered?
Use this exact heading when the list contains just one entry.
What is Work Cited?
A photograph, map, graph, or chart uses this label, usually abbreviated, plus an arabic numeral.
What is Figure (Fig.)?
Numbers used to enumerate a list within prose should be enclosed in these marks.
What are parentheses?
Use either of these two simple fasteners to keep printed pages together.
What are a staple or a paper clip?
Use this spacing throughout the paper, including quotations, notes, and the works-cited list.
What is double-spacing?
For a single-author paper, these two items make up the running head.
What are the author’s surname and page number, separated by a space? No “p.” or extra punctuation.
This is the name of the format in which an entry’s first line is flush left and later lines are indented.
What is a hanging indent?
A table’s label and title go on this side of the table; its source and notes go on the opposite side.
What are above for the label/title and immediately below for the source/notes? Label and title are flush left on separate lines.
A vertical list introduced by a complete sentence takes this punctuation after the introductory sentence.
What is a colon?
Your instructor gives formatting directions that differ from the chapter. These are the directions you should follow.
What are the instructor’s directions?
Both the first line of a paragraph and a block quotation use this indentation from the left margin.
What is half an inch?
Place the running head in this corner, at this distance from the top.
What is the upper right-hand corner, half an inch from the top, flush with the right margin?
Give both the indentation for later lines of an entry and the spacing for the entire list.
What are half an inch and double-spacing?
Musical illustrations use this label, usually abbreviated, with the label and caption ordinarily in this position.
What are Example (Ex.) and directly below the example?
A vertical list continues the grammar of its introductory wording. Should a colon come before that list?
What is no? A list that continues its introductory sentence has no colon before it.
Name one kind of error a spellchecker can miss and one kind of correct material it can flag.
What are correctly spelled but misused words, and proper nouns or terms from other languages? Accept one valid example of each.
A draft has a justified right margin and automatic word breaks at line endings. Name both settings to change.
What are turning off right justification and automatic hyphenation? Leave the right edge uneven.
A paper has exactly one level 1 internal heading. Explain the problem and give the proper alignment for body headings.
What are needing at least two instances of that internal heading level and aligning body headings flush left? The paper/chapter title and notes/works-cited headings are exceptions to the instance rule.
A student left-aligns the Works Cited heading, places it two inches from the top, and adds a period. Correct all three choices.
What are centering Works Cited, placing it one inch from the top, and omitting the period?
A figure’s source can be omitted from the works-cited list only when these two conditions are met.
What are providing complete source information in the caption and not citing that source in the text?
For bulleted fragments, give the usual capitalization and end-punctuation rules, including the capitalization exception.
What are beginning with lowercase and using no end punctuation, unless the first word is normally capitalized, such as a proper noun? Full-sentence items use closing punctuation.
Before electronic submission, consult the teacher’s guidelines for these two areas named in the chapter.
What are formatting and mode of submission, such as e-mail or a website?