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The document provides instructions for formatting an assignment in Microsoft Word or Mac Pages including setting the font to Times New Roman size 12, double spacing lines, indenting paragraphs, italicizing book titles and using quotation marks for chapter titles. It also notes that punctuation should be inside quotation marks.

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Essay Template

The document provides instructions for formatting an assignment in Microsoft Word or Mac Pages including setting the font to Times New Roman size 12, double spacing lines, indenting paragraphs, italicizing book titles and using quotation marks for chapter titles. It also notes that punctuation should be inside quotation marks.

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Student’s Name

Date (Day, Month, Year; 17 January 2020)

Teacher’s Name & Class

Assignment Name

Your Title (Not Assignment Name) Make sure this is centered.

Indent new paragraphs, do not add extra lines between paragraphs. They should aligned

to the left. Remember, English is always aligned to the left unlike Arabic. You can add an extra

line under the title. When you set up the page formatting, notice that there is a lot of space

between my lines. Those are not added lines but ‘spacing.’ In MS Word you go to the Home

tab>Line and Paragraph Spacing, selected Double or 2. In Mac pages you can find it under the

Format tab.

The font must be Times New Roman, 12 point font. Remember, teachers are looking at

the word count. If you change the font to look bigger it’s easy to see, as a matter of fact that’s the

first thing most teachers think. The size of the assignment, if a good teacher gave it, is based on

how long it takes to write an essay that completes the idea with enough detail. Most good

teachers don’t care how long an essay is if you wrote it well. However, you may not know when

your idea is complete.

When quoting something or using it as evidence, make sure to make it clear. You need to

italicize all titles of books for example, The Republic by Plato. If you want to use an article or

chapter you put the title of the chapter in quotation marks and also italicize the title of the book

or journal, for example, “Book III,” The Republic, by Plato or “Ghost Dance,” by Janet Maslin in

The New York Times.


An important thing to notice is that when you use quotation marks, you should put any

punctuation inside the quotation marks. For example, “All philosophy is a reference to Plato.”

The period is not outside the quotation marks but inside. This goes for commas or any other

punctuation.

You can use this as your template when writing papers. Save this to your computer and use it in
this class. I highly recommend you use this for other teachers. No matter what, this will give all
your writing a professional look. This is called Chicago Style and is a standard academic writing
form. You will be using something similar to this in university.

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