Quotations Are Required: In the body of any paper, you must include at least two
direct quotations of material from the sources in your bibliography. Use
quotation marks or indenting to indicate clearly that these are quotations. You
may use any format for citing from the sources. Quotations should not take up
more than 15% of the content of your paper, since your paper should be original
material that you have written (so, do not use extremely long quotations).
Sources and Sources Page: You must use at least three sources other than your
official class texts. You can use those too, but that will mean you have even
more than just three sources. List all sources on a sources page, which does
not count toward the total number of pages required for this paper. You may use
any format for listing your sources.
Length of Papers: Must be at least four pages of paragraph-form text
(pictures/tables/lists etc. don’t count) It is OK to leave some blank space on
1ST and 4TH pages but, combined, those two pages should add to at least one
full page of text.
Typing Style: All papers must be typed, double-spaced, no fonts larger
than 12, no margins greater than 1 inch.
Copying from Sources: Do not copy groups of sentences off a web site or out of a
book or other source to compose your paper except in places where you put the
material in quotes and cite a source. Your paper must be an original paper
written by yourself. All sources must be listed (cited) on your sources page.
You shall not submit a paper that was not written in bulk by you for this class
or which you already used for credit in another class. Do not use thesaurus
software that inserts synonyms into your paper. The instructor reserves the
right to give no credit to a paper found to be in substantial violation of
these rules. The school allows additional penalties and disciplinary action for
a student who is caught in violation of the school’s rules on plagiarism and
cheating. I can easily track down papers copied off the Internet using
Meta-Search techniques and turnitin.com.