The bottom line is that you need to demonstrate a keen understanding of the course materials. Playing with format in order to write less will decrease the probability that you can demonstrate your understanding of the materials.

Please do not include pictures, charts, or tables in your essay. Please do not copy/paste lecture notes into the text of your response.  Please do not simply paraphrase the lecture notes or the book.  You must demonstrate a keen understanding of the course materials

•  Double spacing,

•  Please use 12pt Times New Roman or Helvetica.  Monospaced typeface such as Courier is not allowed,

•  1-inch margins,

•  No more than 1 inch of space dedicated to title and header (you only need to include title of the prompt that you are responding to in the title/header),

•  No extraneous space between paragraphs or headers.

Citation.    Cite lecture and readings where appropriate (points will be deducted otherwise):

•  Include a bibliography page at the end of your paper,

•  Include in-text citations throughout the paper,2

•  You may use any standard citation style, (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.),

•  Please do not use outside sources

If you are citing a particular lecture, then you can use “(Lecture, MM/DD)” for in-text citations.

You need to provide date of the lecture when you cite the lectures. We don’t particularly care about the format of your citation (i.e. APA, etc.). It can simply be something like “POLI 142K Lecture, August 11, 2021”.

•  Extensive amount of footnotes is not encouraged,3

•  Please do not copy/paste lecture notes into the text of your response. Please do not simply paraphrase the lecture notes or the book.

•  Plagiarism will not be tolerated.