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Hello everyone.
With the due date for your essay about to arrive, I want to let everybody know about
two things that are going to help you out a great deal:
lecture two
and the example of page one of an essay.
Now, both of these items can be found on the right sidebar on the syllabus.
The example of page one of an essay
is under handouts,
and what you want to do is open it up and make sure your paper looks like that.
Is your paper double-spaced? Is it working in the correct font: Times New
Roman twelve point.
Is the document header in place? There are four lines of information that go on
only page one of your essays... your name, my name, the course information,
and the date. All these are formatted very specifically, and they go in the top-left
corner of page one only. You'll be able to see all of that
by looking at the example of page one of an essay.
Lecture Two. . .
also on the right side bar of the syllabus but under lectures. . .
Lecture Two is also. . . well, its full title is Lecture Two
Formatting an Academic Prose, Read This Before Turning in Any Work.
Unfortunately, despite the lecture's title, students often do turn in work before
reading it. Very bad idea.
Lecture Two has two sections.
Section one is on formatting,
and if you look at section one of lecture two. . .
and the example of page one of an essay,
you're pretty much have the formatting down.
Section Two of Lecture Two
has to do with the requirements in this course for academic prose.
Read it over. There's a bullet-point list. For example, did you know you're not supposed
to use any first or second-person pronouns anywhere in your paper? It'll
drag down the grade.
Second-person pronouns are instances of the word you, your, yours, yourself. . .
they shift your narrative out of the third-person narrative. Now, if the word "you" appears in
your paper, you're using second-person pronouns, and it's going to affect your
grade.
View the example of page one of an essay
under handouts on the right sidebar the syllabus,
and review Lecture Two, which is under lectures on the right sidebar the
syllabus. I hope you find this information helpful. Thank you.