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Adding a Works Cited page to your research paper document
If need be, see Mr. Janes to make sure you
do this correctly.
- Open your research paper document.
- Scroll down so your cursor is on the last page (even if the paper is
incomplete).
- Insert a Page Break.
- Copy/paste over your Works Cited page content to that new, last page.
- Check to make sure it's formatted correctly - make changes if necessary.
- Save.
Now you can continue working on your research paper and as you add more
content to the last page of the body/conclusion, the Works Cited page will keep
"bumping down" to accommodate the new content.
Final Reminders as we head into the last week of the research paper:
- Proofread your paper
- Any errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization?
- Any awkward sentences or worse, fragments? (like this one!)
- Do not neglect the Little Fires
- Be concise
- Avoid redundancy
- Proper nouns are always to be capitalized - common are not
- Parallelism: Stick to what you start!
- Don’t mix tenses
- Who vs. That
- 0-99? Write out the number
- Semi colon vs. comma/colon
- An apostrophe shows possession - not plurality
- Ending sentences with prepositions. Yes or no?
- Run on sentences - Has your sentence lost its focus?
- Check MLA style
- Research Paper
- Works Cited
- Make sure no quote/summary/paraphrase is without parenthetical citation
and matching bibliographic entry on Works Cited page - If not, that is
plagiarism and will be caught, resulting in a zero for the paper.
- Verify that 80% of your paper is YOUR voice
- Check for casual tone - The paper should be written entirely in the formal
voice
- Check for incidents of 1st or 2nd person and REVISE if present
- Make sure you have transitions between all main and subtopics
- Is your paper 9 7/8 pages in length or less? It's incomplete if so.
Final,
Sage
Words of Advice
If you are sharing your paper with ANYONE else, always remember, Mr. Janes'
expectations are the ones you need to meet. In other words, you are to meet his expectations and
to get into that good habit for college or the workplace. What he has shared all
year and challenged you to do is going to matter to you. It is astounding how so
many people choose to make things more difficult than they need to be. Don't be
that guy. When it comes to grading, you will always
receive what you earn.
Finally, do NOT throw away or delete ANY work you've done for this paper. You
will need everything for the coming Presentation.
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