One-Page Academic Reports

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One-Page Academic Reports
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One-Page Academic Reports

• Written for school purposes

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Formatting

• MarginsSet 1-inch top, bottom, and side margins.
• Double-space the entire report including the
  heading information
• Type the heading at the left margin.
• Your Name
• Your Teachers Name
• Class Name Period
• Date (Military style) Day Month Year

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Formatting Continued

• Center the title in initial Caps
• Indent paragraphs 0.5 inch

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Need To Know

• How to change margins
• How to change line spacing
• How to center align text

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Unbound Reports
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Unbound Reports

• Short reports are often prepared without covers
  or binders. If they consist of more than one
  page, the pages are usually fastened together in
  the upper-left corner by a staple or paper clip.
• Such reports are called unbound reports.

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Standard Margins

• The standard margin for unbound reports are
• First page
• Side margins 1
• Top margins 2
• Bottom margins about 1
• Page number optional, bottom center if used

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Standard Margins

• Second and subsequent pages
• Side margins 1
• Top margins 1
• Bottom margins about 1
• Page number top right-aligned

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Internal Spacing

• A quadruple space (QS) is left between the report
  title and the first line of the body.
  Multiple-line titles are double-spaced (DS).
• Paragraphs will be DS.

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Page Numbers

• The first page of the unbound report may or may
  not include page number. The reports keyed in
  Unit 8 will not include a page number on the
  first page.
• On the second and subsequent pages should be
  right-aligned at the top of the page.

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Textual (Within Text) Citations

• References used to give credit for quoted or
  paraphrased materialtextual citationare keyed
  in parentheses in the report body.
• Textual citations include the name(s) of the
  author(s), year of publication, and page
  number(s) of the reference material.

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Textual (Within Text) Citations

• Quotations of up to three keyed lines are
  enclosed in quotation marks.
• Long quotations (four lines or more) are left and
  right indented.
• An ellipsis(. . .) is used to indicated material
  that is omitted from the quotation. An ellipsis
  is three periods, each preceded and followed by a
  space.

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Reference List

• All references used in a report are listed at the
  end of the heading REFERENCES (BIBLOGRAPHY or
  WORKS CITED)
• QS between the heading and the first reference.
• Begin first line of each reference at left margin
  with a hanging indent of 0.5

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Need to Know How to

• Change margins
• Change paragraphs
• Change line spacing
• Use first line indents
• Use hanging indents
• Add page numbers

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Assignment

• Key Unbound Report on page 65
• Page 70
• Page 72