How
to Turn in an Essay:
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First, of course, write an excellent
essay, one that reflects a lot of thought, imagination, wisdom on your
part, and interest for your audience.
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Write the essay in the wordprocesser
Word.
There are a lot of good reasons for this. If, however, you don't
have Word at home, there are ways to work around it. One of the things
that we'll learn this semester is how to move text from one format to another.
For example, you may be able to write your essay at home in another word
processer and then save it as a "Text" file, often with the extention ".txt"
Then you should be able to open it in Word, either in our classroom or
in the Student Technology
Center or the Writing
Center. You may lose some formatting, but often you can restore
it easily.
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Set the font to "Times New Roman" and
set the point size to "12."
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Set the margins at an inch, all the
way around. Use "Page Setup," under "File," to do this.
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In the upper left corner, type your
name.
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Just beneath it, type the date.
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Beneath that, include the number of
words. Type in a line like this: "Number of Words: ???"
And then use the "Word Count," under "Tools" to get the number of words.
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Include a title, centered.
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Single-space the document.
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Ordinarily, you'll do five or six different
things with your essay: (1) You'll save it on a 3½-inch
disk and bring the disk to class (2)
You'll likely save it on your machine at home, if you have one. (3)
You'll turn in a paper copy on the day it's due. (4) If you're
a 1301 student, you'll post it on your webpage. (5) You'll
send it to me via WebCT email, as a Word attachment. See "How
to..." (6) You'll post it in the proper folder under WebCT
"Discussions." See "How to..."
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We won't necessarily do all of these
every time, but you'll need to be able to do all of them.