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Summary: When writing a college research paper, use 12-point type, double spacing and use a readable font. Write a college research paper that has all citations in order with tips from an English teacher in this free video on college research papers.
David M. Harris has taught English at Vanderbilt University and elsewhere. He has published poetry, essays, short fiction and a novel, and he has worked in book and magazine publishing.read more
"The details of what a research paper is going to look like will vary slightly by the citation system but there are some general rules you can stick with. First of all type it, no exceptions on that one, type it in 12 point easily readable type, times Roman Courier any of those are fine as long as it is an easily readable font. Double space, make sure your name and your contact information is in the upper left hand corner of the first page and make sure you have a header with your name and the page number that runs across all the pages of the paper. When you open the file you are generally working in Microsoft Word don't mess around with the margins, an inch on the top and an inch on the bottom and an inch and a quarter on the sides that's perfectly fine. Make sure you have all your citations in order get your in text citations in the right places, make sure your work sited page is well organized, alphabetized by author's last name. The work sited space can be single space but the text has to be double spaced. If you have long quotations, longer than three lines they go inside narrower margins there's that extract as we say, bring it in another half an inch on the left side and that shows that it is all in quotation, you don't have to put quotation marks around that. For more details go to your grammar hand book if you are a college student. You got that hand book for English comp and I'm sure your teacher told you to save it, good idea. Otherwise, you can find this information pretty easily, the MLA has website, the APA has a website and all the other major citation systems have their own websites but stick with these basics and you should be o'kay."
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