Last Name 1

Your Name

Ms. Drzycimski-Finn

English 111.sec#

Day Month Year

Word Count 279 (not needed for exercises)

MLA Style Formatting

All work done outside of class must be typed (unless I say otherwise) and properly formatted according to MLA style guidelines. Margins are one inch on all sides. Your last name and the page number should be in the upper right corner, a half-inch from the top of the page. The paper's heading is flush with the left margin;the title of the essay is centered. Begin the text of your essay by indenting one half-inch from the left margin. Double space throughout the paper, without skipping any additional lines. Indent each time you begin a new paragraph. Other than the above exceptions, the paper should be left justified (that is, the text should be flush with the left margin). The right margin does not have to be justified, although you may (conventions generally prefer only left justification).

The Works Cited page must also be properly formatted, or your grade will suffer. Use the header to number this page continuously with the other pages of the document. Work(s) Cited is centered at the top of the page. Double-space throughout, without skipping any additional lines. While in the body of your essay you use regular indentation to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph, in the Works Cited page you will use hanging indentation to set off each source. Use the ruler to format this indentation type. All items listed in the Works Cited page must be alphabetized. Underlineoritalicize (not both) book and periodical titles; place essay and article titles in “quotation marks.” For answers to questions about how to document specific types of sources, review section 53, the teal-edged(56, the cranberry-edged) pages in The Bedford Handbook.

Works Cited

Aaron, Jane E. The Compact Reader: Short Essays by Method and Theme. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford, 1999.

Bloom, Lynn Z. The Essay Connection: Readings For Writers. 6th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Douglass, Frederick. “Learning to Read.” The Norton Reader. 10th ed. Eds. Linda H. Peterson, John C. Brereton, and Joan E. Hartman. New York: Norton, 2000. 428-432.

Greenblatt, Stephen. “Storytelling.” The Norton Reader. 9th ed. Eds. Linda H. Peterson, John C. Brereton, and Joan E. Hartman. New York: Norton, 1996. 1132-1136.

Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford, 1998.

Keillor, Garrison. “How to Write a Letter.” The Norton Reader. 10th ed. Eds. Linda H. Peterson, John C. Brereton, and Joan E. Hartman. New York: Norton, 2000. 562-564.

Morris, William, ed. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. New College Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

Peterson, Linda H., John C. Brereton, and Joan E. Hartman, eds. The Norton Reader. 9th ed. New York: Norton, 1996.

Saving & Sending Your Documents

As part of the recursive process, you will be creating many versions of your papers. You will need a way to keep track of the various versions, which should be saved as word documents (not works or word perfect) both to your disk and to your H-drive. Create an electronic folder for each essay; these folders will contain every draft of the relevant essay and all prewriting. You should also have electronic folders for grammar exercises and reading exercises (one for each type). Thus, your disk and your hard drive should have six different folders: Essay1, Essay2, Essay3, Essay4, GrammarEx, and ReadingEx.

Every time you modify a draft (even if the draft isn’t turned in), you will copy the older draft, paste it into a new document, and rename the new, modified document as a new draft. Therefore, each essay will have several versions: RoughDraft, Draft2, Draft3, … and FinalDraft. More drafts are certainly possible and even likely. Additionally, you may do some of your prewriting on the computer. This prewriting should also be saved and named: PreWrite1, PreWrite2, PreWrite3, and so on. Don’t forget to change the date in the heading of each draft.

I will assign several different grammar and reading exercises, so those, too, will need to be identified. Use the due date to indicate the assignment, i.e. 28Nov. Also, as I will be receiving homework from 50 students, I will need to know who sent each document just by looking at the document name. Therefore, each document should also be identified by your last name, i.e. Finn. So let’s see what these document names might eventually look like:

FinnE4PW2

TemenE2D3

SonnieGX29Nov

MeckesRX28Nov

Once you’ve properly saved and named your document, you need to send it to me. Do not send it as part of the body of the e-mail. Instead, you should send the document as an attachment. Place the document name in the subject line of the e-mail, and don’t forget to include a short note telling me who you are and what you are sending to me.

Don’t worry about the colors. Your work will be in black type only.