General Format

General Guidelines

100

What is the amount of spacing used for all text in your paper?

Double spaced

200

What is the element which goes at the top right of each page

Page numbers

300

What is the portion at the top of each page called?

The page header/running head

400

What is the maximum number of characters in your running head?

50 including spacing and punctuation

500

What fonts other than 12-pt Times New Roman is acceptable?

• sans serif fonts, EX: 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, and 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode

• serif fonts, EX: 11-point Georgia, 10-point Computer Modern

Title Page

100

Whose name other than your own should be on the title page?

Professor's name

200

What do you put after your name?

The class name (English 102)

300

What is the last thing on your title page?

The due date

400

Should the title be aligned to the left, middle, or right?

Middle/center

500

How many spaces down should the title be?

4 spaces

Abstract

100

What does the first line of the abstract say?

The word "Abstract" in bold and centered

200

What is different about how the abstract is formatted compared to your body?

It is not indented

300

Typically, how many words should your abstract be limited to?

250 words

400

What can you include to help researchers find your work in databases?

Keywords

500

What should your abstract include? (At least three)

Your research topic, research questions, participants, methods, results, data analysis, and conclusions