University Writing Center
Fall 2011
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Academic conversations and writing
are based on research and on what
people believed before
Challenge - must maintain your
voice
 use
your own words and
interpretations
 Voice
of authority information
taken word for word
◦ Word / Phrase
◦ Complete sentence
◦ Longer piece - Block (5 or more
lines)
 Periods
and commas go inside of
quotation marks
John Smith concurs that “Dewey is a
‘great’ guy,” but Smith is not sure if
Dewey’s child-centered theory is
“applicable in contemporary education.”2
2. John Smith The Life of John Dewey (Boston, MA: Education
Press, 2001), 25.
 Ellipsis
… —indicates missing
words
 Brackets [
]—clarifies
meaning
 Italics—emphasizes term
 [sic]—for errors in text
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1” margins on all sides
Times New Roman or Palatino
12 pt for text and 10 for footnotes
Footnote/endnote numbers are superscripted
Double space except block quotations, table
titles, and individual bibliography entries
Page numbers at bottom in center of page
beginning on 1st page (title page)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN ACTION:
A CASE STUDY OF DEKALB
Jim Student
Advanced City Government PSPA 683
January 19, 2011
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Writing Reality (L1)
Basic Rules (L2)
Run-on Sentences(L3)
Comma and conjunction(L4)
Coordinating conjunction: FANBOYS is the
acronym for the coordinating conjunctions.
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Uses footnotes for in-text citations
If multiple sources, put in one note with
semicolons (;) between them
If using an explanation or additional
information and citation information, put
additional information first followed by a
period. Then add the citation information.
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First line of a footnote/endnote is indented
on standard tab. The rest of the lines are at
the margin.
First line of a bibliographic entry is at the
margin, with all subsequent lines indented a
standard tab (hanging indent).
All entries of either footnotes/endnotes or
bibliography are single spaced with a double
space between them.
Smith, The Truth about Writing: From
Word Choice to Document (DeKalb, IL:
Semicolon Press, 2005), 418.
1.John
2.Ibid,
422.
3.Ibid.
8.
Smith, 467.
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Do not use an access date for online sources
If you do not know an exact year of creation
or modification, use n.d. (no date)
Footnotes
1.John Smith, The Truth about Writing: From
Word Choice to Document (DeKalb, IL:
Semicolon Press, 2005), 418.
Bibliography
Smith, John. The Truth about Writing: From
Word Choice to Document. DeKalb, IL:
Semicolon Press, 2005.
Robert Frost, Run-ons I Have Known
(Chicago: Chicago Press, 2005), Kindle edition,
vol. 3, pt. 1, chap. 6.
3.
Frost, Robert. Run-ons I Have Known. Chicago:
Chicago Press, 2005. Kindle edition.
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2 or 3 authors, give all authors’ names in
both the note and the bibliography entry.
4 or more authors,
◦ in the note give the first author’s name followed by
et al.
◦ in the bibliography entry, list all authors’ names.
3.
John Smith and Gwen Taylor, The
Wonderful World of Writing: Word Choice
Matters (DeKalb, IL: Semicolon Press, 2005),
188.
Smith, John and Gwen Taylor, The Wonderful
World of Writing: Word Choice Matters.
DeKalb, IL: Semicolon Press, 2005.
University Writing Center, Confessions of
a Comma Junkie (DeKalb, IL: Grammar Press,
2011), 18.
16.
University Writing Center, Confessions of a
Comma Junkie. DeKalb, IL: Grammar Press,
2011.
14.William
Shakespeare, “From Semicolon to
Colon: Realities Exposed,” in The Glory of the
Sonnets, ed. Nathaniel Hawthorne (New York:
Outdoor Press, 2010), 45.
Shakespeare, William. “From Semicolon to
Colon: Realities Exposed,” in The Glory of the
Sonnets, edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 4153. New York: Outdoor Press, 2010).
Footnote
1.Jane Eyre, “Victorian Love Stories,” Writers
Guild Journal 204, no. 3 (2008), 45.
Bibliography
Eyre, Jane. “Victorian Love Stories.” Writers
Guild Journal 204, no. 3 (2008): 41-82.
Footnote
Eyre, “Victorian Love Stories,” Writers
Guild Journal 204, no. 3 (2008), 45, JSTOR,
doi:10-1842/j.wgj.2008.20.004.
2.Jane
Eyre, “Victorian Love Stories,” Writers
Guild Journal 204, no. 3 (2008), 45, JSTOR,
http://www.jstor.org/
2.Jane
Bibliography
Eyre, Jane “Victorian Love Stories,” Writers Guild
Journal 204, no. 3 (2008): 41-82. JSTOR
(doi:10-1842/j.wgj.2008.20.004).
Eyre, Jane “Victorian Love Stories,” Writers Guild
Journal 204, no. 3 (2008): 41-82. JSTOR,
http://www.jstor.org/
Footnote
1.Editorial, Daily Chronicle, January 3, 2011.
2.Samuel
Sentence, “Writing Styles Changing,”
Grammar News, June 14, 2003.
Or weave into sentence
In an article published on June 14, 2003, in the
Grammar News, Samuel Sentence notes that…
Footnote
19. DeKalb City Planning Commission, “Marketing
Plan,” City of DeKalb, last modified June 18, 2011.
http://www.marketingplan/cityofdekalb.org.
Bibliography
DeKalb City Planning Commission, “Marketing Plan,”
City of DeKalb. Last modified June 18, 2001.
http://www.marketingplan/cityofdekalb.org.
Footnote
38. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
The Mutual Security Act of 1956, 84th Cong.,
2d sess, 1956, Rep. 2273, 9-10.
Bibliography
U. S. Congress. Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations. The Mutual Security Act of 1956,
84th Cong., 2d sess, 1956, Rep. 2273.
President’s Commission on the Accident at
Three Mile Island, Report of the Technical
Assessment Task Force (Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office,1979), 21-22.
2.
Bibliography
President's Commission on the Accident at
Three Mile Island. Report of the Technical
Assessment Task Force. Vol. 3. Washington,
DC: Government Printing Office, 1979.
37.State
v. Hansen, 249 Neb. 177 (1995).
Not included in bibliography
Footnote
92.Wilkie Collins, email message to author,
August 13, 2011.
Personal communications do not go into the
Bibliography
Eyre, Jane “Victorian Love Stories,” Writers Guild
Journal 204, no. 3 (2008): 41-82. JSTOR (doi:101842/j.wgj.2008.20.004).
Smith, John. The Truth about Writing: From Word
Choice to Document. DeKalb, IL: Semicolon Press,
2005.
U. S. Congress. Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations. The Mutual Security Act of 1956, 84th
Cong., 2d sess, 1956, Rep. 2273.