Style Sheet: All Students

I will be giving all of you a copy of this in the coming days, but this is the style sheet for submitting written work in my class. For the first AP focus paper I won't be nearly as stringent on presentation, but since the first Gifted English II paper won't come in until next week I expect submissions to conform to the following.

(Again, you'll have a copy of this, but I thought it would be handy to post here FYI.)

2009-2010 Style Sheet

Jenn Hilley, Instructor

Room 313

William R. Boone High School

You will be submitting a great deal of written work this year for this course, and there are certain expectations for written submissions. Please adhere to the following guidelines:

1. All work must be typed in a professional 11 or 12-point font. Examples of professional fonts are Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, Helvetica, Courier, and Palatino. Examples of non-professional fonts are Curlz, San Francisco, Comic, or Chiller. If you think your font might not be adequate, hit “select all” and “Times New Roman” and you can’t go wrong.

2. Written submissions will be double-spaced with one-inch margins.

3. If you need to staple your work, please use an actual staple in the upper left hand corner of the paper. Report covers, funky clips, and folded pages tend to get lost.

4. Please proofread carefully for errors before submitting written work. If you discover an error on the day of submission, I’d rather you NOT use white-out or its equivalent but draw a neat line through the error and hand-write your correction directly on the page.

5. Your name will NOT appear on the front of any work you submit, but on the back of the final copy. I used to require student numbers, but with ProgressBook it is too difficult to cross-reference.

6. Your paper is a reflection of your inner thought processes, and as such should be professional, sophisticated, and insightful. Avoid slangy expressions, AOL-isms, and above all, profane language.

7. If you are citing material, or imbedding quotes, follow MLA format. Examples can be found in the literary anthology for AP students and in Writers Inc for sophomores.

8. I encourage you to express yourself creatively on your title page; on days of submission, we will have a Title Parade. I love to see clip art and inventive approaches to title pages, so have it—it will not adversely affect your grade, unless you have a picture of a clown (I’m afraid of them) or Lambchop the Puppet (that song just never ends.) Select a funny title if it moves you!