Expectations For Typed Text at CKJH

Paper: on one side of Standard 8 x 11 paper

Line spacing: Always double spaced (without any extra spaces between paragraphs)
Margins: 1 on all sides
Font:
Plain print font (no ALL CAPS, script, bold, or italics)
o For example: Arial, Book Antigua, Courier New, Tahoma, or Times
New Roman
Font Style:
Use Underlines for titles not Italics
Bold only in titles, not the body text
Font Size: 12 or 14 point
Heading
On the first page:
o First and Last Name
o Period #
o Teacher Assignment
o Date
Pagination:
Last name and page number in the top right corner (using a header)
Bibliography/Works Cited:
All citations on one page at the end of the final draft.
MLA format.
Listed in Alphabetical Order.
Using hanging indent.

Typed Text Help Sheet

Margins: 1 on all sides
To change the margins on a Word Document:
Using the Menu at the top of the Word File
click:
1. File
2. Page Setup (the dialog box will open)
3. Check the margins on the top, bottom, left,
and right to make sure they are 1 on all sides

Line spacing: Always double spaced

To change the line spacing on a Word Document:
Highlight the text then:
1. Using the Menu at the top of the Word File click
-Format
2. Paragraph (the dialog box will open)
OR
Highlight the text then:
1. Right click
2. Click Paragraph (the dialog box will open)
Then:
1. Change the Line spacing to:
2. Double
Pagination:
Last name and page number in the top
right corner after page one (using a
header)
To add a header to a Word Document:
Using the Menu at the top of the Word File click:
1. View
2. Header and Footer
3. The Header and the menu bar are available.
4. Type your last name and click the # button on the menu.
5. The page number format dialog box will pop up
6. Change the start at page if you have a title page

Bibliography/Works Cited:
Example:
All citations on one page at the end of the
final draft.
Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula
MLA format.
A. Treichler, eds. Cultural Studies.
Listed in Alphabetical Order.
Using hanging indent.
New York: Rouleledge, 1992.
In Microsoft Word
Highlight the text
Format paragraph
Under the indentation section, near
the top SPECIAL
Choose hanging by 0.5
Quotations:
For Exact Quotes:
Rule: When a quotation runs no more than four
lines, put it in quotes, incorporate the author into the
text and add the page number.
Rule: When the author's name does not appear in the signal phrase, place the
author's name and the page number(s) in parentheses at the end of the quotation.
Rule: When a quotation runs more than four lines, set it off from your text
Begin a new line
Indent one inch; type it double-space
Do not use quotation marks
Add the page number
Incorporate the work, the author(s), or both into the text.
Parenthetical Citations:
Parenthetical documentation should not all come from the same source. You should
usually have at least one parenthetical citation for each source listed in your Works
Cited Page.
Parenthetical documentation should look like this (Thompson 32).
You put the end punctuation of the sentence after the final parenthesis.
The only things within the parentheses are the authors last name and page number
with one space between them.
If the source has no page numbers, such as a website, just use the authors name
either in text or in parenthesis, like this (Lewis).

Galler 1
Brittany Galler
3rd Period Language Arts
Ms. OSullivan Persuasive Essay
18 February 2005
Cell Phones Off the Road
When a cell phone goes off in a classroom or at a concert, we are irritated, but at least our
lives are not endangered. When we are on the road, however, irresponsible cell phone users are
more than irritating: They are putting our lives at risk. Some of us have witnessed drivers so
distracted by dialing and chatting that they resemble drunk drivers weaving, for example, or they
nearly run down pedestrians in crosswalks. Regulation is needed because drivers using cell
phones are seriously impaired and because laws on negligent and reckless driving are not
sufficient to punish offenders.
A recent Time magazine article reports on an unscientific survey of its readers. It states
that over 2 million people responded to their survey reporting actual collisions or near misses
because of the use of cell phones (Walker 39). But scientific research also confirms the dangers
of using phones while on the road. In 1997, an important study appeared in the New England
Journal of Medicine. The author, Donald Redelmeier, studied 699 volunteers who made their
cell phone bills available in order to confirm the times when they had placed calls. The
participants reported any nonfatal collision in which they were involved. By comparing the time
of a collision with the phone records, the researchers assessed the results:

We found that using a cellular telephone was associated with a risk of having a
motor vehicle collision that was about four times as high as that among the same
drivers when they were not using their cellular phones. This relative risk is similar
to the hazard associated with driving with a blood alcohol level at the
legal limit. (456)