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Stephanie Cyr

Ms. Cyr

English Honors III

November 21, 2008

Norman Mailer Cyr’s Hero

Norman Mailer was born……………………………………….

PAGE FORMAT: PAGE 2+Cyr 2

Each paragraph should be indented. The entire paper should be

double spaced. You do not need to hit enter more than once when

starting a new paragraph. Use a 12 point font. Use 1” margins.

WHAT TO CITE

Direct Quotes: Use “to separate the exact words” that you use. “You may use an entire sentence or two.” You may “choose” to use one or two “specific words” because you like the cadence. Either way, if they are not your own words you must quote them.

Paraphrase: If you reword the information from a source, you must still give credit. However, you do not need to use the “quote marks”.

Note: cutting a pasting a paragraph and changing each word is not a legitimate way to create a paper.

CITINGS

“Direct Quotes should look like this” (www.americanauthors.com/hemingway par 1). If you use the same website again with no other citings in between you skip the name of the website and just put the “paragraph number” (par 4).

A citing from a book should look like this (LastNameofAuthor 4).

WORKS CITED

• separate sheet at end of paper• Label it Works Cited – Centered - no underline – no italics – nothing fancy• list entries alphabetically by last name

WORKS CITED: BOOKS

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

WORKS CITED : POEMS/SHORT STORIES

Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Selected Poems. New York: Dover, 1991. 12-19.

Carter, Angela. "The Tiger's Bride." Burning Your Boats: The Collected Stories. New York: Penguin, 1995. 154-169.

WORKS CITED: WEB SITES

Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic address].

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April 2006 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu>.

WORKS CITED: A WIKIPEDIA EXAMPLE

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you're referring to:

"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440>.

PAPER CONSIDERATIONS

Homonyms: •where, were •know, no •to, too•There, their, they’re

Redundancy: •Use a thesaurus to find new words that mean the same thing.

PAPER CONSIDERATIONS CONTINUED

Editorializing is when you add your opinion to your paper. For a research paper, you do not want to add your opinion. If you feel you must include your opinion, do it at the very end of your paper in the conclusion.

PAPER CONSIDERATIONS CONTINUED

Do not use phrases such as:

“In this paper I will”“This is a quote”“Here is a quote”

Review Miss Cyr’s Grammar Rules

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