English IV – Rains
College / Career Research
Editing 2
Follow these instructional guidelines when editing your research paper.
1.
Take out all NP’s in the parenthetical documentation.
2.
Check for pronoun – antecedent agreement. Ex. If ONE pursues this career
with great passion, HE/SHE (not THEY) should enjoy a lifelong occupation
that is not only financially gratifying but is also…
3.
Avoid capitalizing the name of the career unless the first word is at the
beginning of the sentence or unless it is within the parenthetical
documentation.
4.
Delete the periods (.) in between letters in acronyms. Ex. TCU / UTT / PhD
5.
Unless you use the $ or % sign, numbers from 1-100 MUST BE WRITTEN
OUT. Any number higher than one hundred should be in Arabic numeration.
Ex. The student graduates with 126 hours of course work in biology to earn
him a BS degree.
6.
A chart should remain intact. Avoid continuing a chart’s information on
another page.
7.
EVERY ASPECT OF THE PAPER is typed in size 12 – even the
information inside the charts (unless you’ve received special permission due
to a chart’s length). EVERY ASPECT OF THE PAPER is double spaced.
8.
Place your bibliography cards in ALPHABETICAL order according to the
first entry on the first line.
9.
Type your Works Cited according to the following directions:
a. Center the title: Works Cited
b. Hit Ctrl 2 and press Enter
c. Type the information from your first alphabetized bibliography. Be sure
to indent if the information goes to a second line. YOU MUST HAVE
INVERSE INDENTATION! If you have quotation marks around
information on your bibliography cards, then you must place this
information in quotation marks on the Works Cited page. If you have
information on your bibliography cards that is underlined, then you must
italicize the information on the Works Cited page.
d. Continue typing the information from the remaining bibliography cards.
10.
Check your internal parenthetical documentation with the information from
your Works Cited page. The information must match up so that I can tell
where you found your information.
11.
Avoid using these words / groups of words
a. Thing / something / anything…
b. A lot / alot
c. One, one, one, one, one, one… INSTEAD, use words like the person
pursuing a career in _____, or the student, or the (name of the profession –
teacher, architect, TV repairman…)
d. In the end; it is all worth it; …