FORMAT FOR TYPED WORK

Your paper’s TITLE should be:

Use a 12-POINT font, —CENTERED Use the centering TOP AND BOTTOM
In the top left corner
button. put a HEADING, SINGLE-SPACED,
either TIMES (NEW) ROMAN, MARGINS should
that includes:
Garamond, or a —NOT underlined OR italicized OR in be 1”.
—your first and last NAME
quotation marks
—your TEACHER and PERIOD
—CAPITALIZED as follows:
Always capitalize the first —the DATE
word, and
capitalize all other important
TYPE, DOUBLE-SPACED,
all words.
Stanley Student
Do not capitalize a short, Titles of CHAPTERS and
essays for school titles of SHORT WORKS
and college (not
Faas – Pd 3
March 25, 2048 like songs, poems,
1½ spaced).
and stories should
The Mortality of the Mockingbird be put in QUOTATION
MARKS.

NO EXTRA SPACE
In both the 1853 popular song “Listen to the Mockingbird” and in
Titles of LONG WORKS
between like books and
paragraphs. Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, death looms large.
plays should be
ITALICIZED.
INDENTa new Although the song’s title sounds light and upbeat, the lyrics are dark
paragraph ½-INCH The RIGHT MARGIN should
by using the TAB and brooding. The speaker mourns the death of a loved one named Hallie, be “RAGGED,” OR UNEVEN—
key not nice and straight
and “the mockingbird is singing o’er her grave.” Clearly, the mockingbird’s like the left margin.
SPACE ONCEafter a Your computer will do
comma, period, song is not a cheerful and enjoyable greeting of the new day, or a lusty this automatically—
colon, or
semicolon. mating call, but rather a dirge, full of melancholy, even tragedy.

Set LEFT and RIGHT

MARGINS at 1”