Final Drafts of Research Paper Due Nov. 25

Your 7-to-10-page research paper (with 6-8 sources) is due Wednesday. It may be turned in Monday for a lower grade.

Be sure to see your Writer's Choice book on citing sources, revising and presenting the final draft. You may also want to see the MLA citations link on this page.

If you are looking for an expert to interview, see the link to USC experts on this page.

Style Notes on Research Paper Rough Drafts

Many of you are making the same mistakes. Here are some notes on style:

Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks. That means commas, periods, exclamation points are followed by the quotation marks. "I fell down the stairs and nearly broke my neck!"

Book titles are italicized. You underline when you are writing by hand since it is hard to write in italics.

There's no need to use the words "out there" as in, "There are many people out there in the world."

There is no comma between the author's name and page number in a parenthetical reference. Example: (Smith 40)
There is no comma between the student's name and the page number in the upper right hand corner. Example: (Hernandez 2)