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Your Full Name
(e.g. Don DeWitt)
PCS, section 1 or 2
Name of Assignment
(e.g. Homework #2)
Date submitted: 9/22/08
Physiological Control Systems
Formatting Rules
for Dr. Don DeWitt's students
(Last update: 9/9/08)

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For All Written Submissions

All papers submitted should be word processed with the following formatting:
Font: Times or Times Roman
Body style: normal (use bold and italics for special emphasis) and
do not use underlines)
Body size: 12 pt
Spacing: single or 1.5 spacing: which means:
single: 5 lines per inch  and
1.5: 4 lines per inch

(These lines per inch maxima will be determined by measurments over a 3 inch distance.)
Note: All current events reports must be single spaced.
Title style 
& size:
centered, bold, 18 point
Heading style 
& size:
left justified, bold, 14 point
(Note: a heading is a title for a section within your paper.)
Page margins: 0.75 inch on left and right, 
0.75 inch on top & bottom
Page numbers: lower right or center (place in footer)
Name: upper right (first & last name in header) - do not bold or italicize
Class name 
& section:
below your name (e.g., PCS) using single spacing
- do not bold or italicize
Name of Assignment: below your class name (e.g., Homework #1) using single spacing
- do not bold or italicize
Date submitted: below your assignment name
(e.g., Date submitted: September 22, 2003)
using single spacing
- do not bold or italicize
Page size: 8.5" x 11" white  (NO legal or other oversized paper)... anything hanging out will be cut off!
Print on one side, in upright format on all pages (a.k.a., portrait mode) unless a graphic requires horizontal formating (a.k.a., landscape mode)
Other: Read The Rules
Graphics: See Graphics below

Clarifications
  • All papers must include YOUR name, the course name, section and date submitted in the upper right hand corner (single spacing) in the header zone on the first page ONLY... so do not use the header function of your word processor because it will place your name on every page.
  • There is a difference between a Heading and a Header.
    • A Heading is a word or phrase describing a section of a paper such as Clarifications above.
    • A Header Zone is the place in your paper where your name is written and ...
    • A Footer is the place in your paper where the page number is written. 
  • Do not submit your paper with a title page. (It wastes paper!)
  • Do not use plastic folders to protect your paper. (It wastes your money, and I drop them more often.)
  • Place your submission in the IN FOLDER for YOUR section.
  • Late submissions or submissions when I am not available:
    • Ask a teacher or staff member to print and sign their name, and add the date and time when you are placing the document in my mailbox.  Failure to do so will result in my assumption that you submitted your work on the following day with the loss of 5-10% depending when I visit my mailbox.
    • Alternative: You may mail via United States Postoffice, Fed Ex, or equvalent your work to me at my school address. The critical issue is the time and date it is taken out of your hands.  Therefore make sure the cancellation or time of mailing will be displayed clearly on your package.
  • Graphics should support each major section of your assignments.
    • Photos may be used as graphics for photos of people, places or apparati.  They may not be used for drawings of molecules or flow charts, etc.  Graphics about molecules, structures, or flow charts should be drawn by hand, or may be traced from a referenced source. 
    • All Figures must be placed in the paper in order of their discussion. 
    • All Figures must be referred to in the text of your paper using styles such as: "As seen in Figure 2, " or "(See Figure 1.)" 
    • All graphics are to be considered as Figures and all figures must include a one-sentence legend describing the graphic.  All graphics should be appropriately labeled.
    • Graphics DO NOT need to be presented in color.  Color graphics are optional and will gain no extra points.
    • Warning: Printing on graphics that is illegible, will negate the value of the graphic.
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