Paper Format Guidelines 

Below are guidelines on properly formatting your papers. For this course, you will use MLA format for all papers.

A sample MLA formatted paper is available in the Instructor’s Posting area to use as a guide.

Paper Guidelines:

When you type your paper, you should be using Times New Roman font, regular 12 point, double-spaced text, and 1 inch margins top/bottom/left/right.

Please include a MLA format heading at the start of your paper. The heading includes your name, instructor name, course title and date.

Length: approximately 3-4 double-spaced typed pages (This should be about 1000 words.)

It is mandatory that any assignment you submit for this course is your own work. If you do use other sources, you must use parenthetical citations and the works cited page to give credit to your sources. Any and all assignments may be checked for plagiarism. Plagiarized work receives an automatic zero and automatic failure for the entire course.

Once your essay is saved and ready for grading, use copy & paste to place the essay in the submittal boxes by the due date on the front page of the course.

Even though you may format your paper properly, the submittal boxes sometimes undo the formatting. I will not take off any points for this. However, be sure to use your ENTER/RETURN key on text in the submittal boxes to create blank line spaces between paragraphs.

The submittal boxes will mess with some of your formatting and add some garbage characters to your paper. The webmaster knows of this, and the instructor will not penalize your work for these types of errors.

However, MLA format of your paper is still very possible when you use the submission boxes. You can have a heading, title, citations, works cited, line breaks, paragraphing, indentions, bolding, italicizing, underlining, and a variety of other styles. Obviously, there is no need for page numbers in the submission boxes, since the paper comes in one email.


Please go to http://www.bcconline.info/cgi/discus/discus.cgi?pg=help


Click Formatting.

Here you will see how to add style effects to your submissions and to your discussion posts.