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10 Tips for Formatting Your Paper
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When you are writing any type of an academic
paper it is not only important to have a great
text written to get it accepted, but also follow
all of the required formatting rules.
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If you won't format your paper according to the
required formatting rules it can be returned to
you. Exactly the outcome you do not want to have.
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When you follow the formatting rules and write
your paper in a proper style, it increases the
chances of getting a better grade for you.
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And on the other side, you can get a grade that
is way worse than you were expecting or even fail
your assignment if your formatting is not on
point.
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Different universities, whether it is MIT or
Yale, have different formatting rules. You need
to find out about them first before writing your
paper or article
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Formatting rules include instructions about the
formatting of margins in your annotated
biblioraphy, headings and titles, tables and
illustrations, placement of the list of works
cited, printed paper binding, running head with
page numbers format, etc.
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Your heading can differ depending on the course
but in general, you need to include the following
your and your instructors name, name of the
course and the date
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Another thing that you have to keep in mind is
proper margins in your paper. Find out what
margins you need to use
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One of the parts of your paper that students of
institutions like Harvard and Ohio have
difficulties with is an annotated bibliography.
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An annotated bibliography is not just a simple
list of sources that you have used in your paper.
It should include a brief description for each
entry.
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This way you will inform your reader about the
relevancy and the quality of cited sources in
your paper.
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There are many different tools that you can find
online to help you with it, for example - MLA
annotated bibliography generator
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If you need help with the citations in your
writing you can try MLA 7th edition citation maker
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There are also tools that are available for
formatting of APA papers like APA paper generator
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Or maybe if you need to change your paper from
one style to another you can use a tool like MLA
to APA paper converter to do it for you.
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One of the citing styles that many people make
mistakes with is Turabian. Turabian style
includes two ways of citing sources and research
within your paper - notes-bibliography style and
author-date style which is also called a
reference list style
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Author-Date citation style is often used in
social, natural, or physical sciences. If you are
writing an academic paper on one of these topics
you can use a Turabian format generator. Notes-Bib
liography Citation Style is used for humanities -
subjects like philosophy, history, religion,
literature, etc.
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There are also many different books that you can
find helpful when you are writing an academic
paper in MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian or any other
formatting style. This book can be very useful
for the help with text formatting
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