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Writing An Essay - Online Essays

Writing An Essay

The Essay Title

Although the topic of your essay serves as the title, the title section of your essay contains several additional elements. You have two options for the title section:

Display the title at the top of the first page.

Use a separate title page for the title section of your essay.

When you're not using a title page, generally your name, the course name, professor or teacher's name and the due date are placed at the upper left hand corner of the first page. Below that should be your title centered. Your essay begins after skipping one line below the title.

Example:

John Brown
English Literature
Professor William Lear
December 5, 2005

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of your essay and should not be bolded, italicized or underlined.

Tips for Formatting Essay Text

Use the standard margins of 1" on the top and bottom margins and 1.25" on the left and right margins.

Double spaced text is standard in essay writing and provides room for your editor or teacher to circle or underline errors or add arrows connecting their comments to your text.

Unless otherwise specified, essay text is left aligned. In cases where your essay is hand written instead of typed, it's "handy" to use a straight edge to keep vertical alignments at a 90-degree angle.

Use a standard font such as "Times New Roman" size 12.
Print your essay on only one side of paper.
Use standard white paper (8.5" X 11").

Paragraphs are identified by an indentation of five spaces (a tab), do not make extra spaces between paragraphs.

Page Numbers

When used, a separate title page is not numbered. The first page of text is page 1 and may be numbered at the bottom ...

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Added: 3/22/2011 12:49:27 PM
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