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    This style sheet provides guidelines for writing academic papers for an AP English class, including how to format titles, the overall paper, use quotations, and eliminate unnecessary words. It specifies using MLA format with 1 inch margins, double spacing, and a 12 point normal font. Quotations should not start sentences and should be smoothly incorporated into sentences with an explanation of their significance. Superfluous and "duh" words that do not add meaning should be removed.

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    This style sheet provides guidelines for writing academic papers for an AP English class, including how to format titles, the overall paper, use quotations, and eliminate unnecessary words. It specifies using MLA format with 1 inch margins, double spacing, and a 12 point normal font. Quotations should not start sentences and should be smoothly incorporated into sentences with an explanation of their significance. Superfluous and "duh" words that do not add meaning should be removed.

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    Stylesheet AP 3

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    Alicia Ferrell Rosenbaum
    This style sheet provides guidelines for writing academic papers for an AP English class, including how to format titles, the overall paper, use quotations, and eliminate unnecessary words. It specifies using MLA format with 1 inch margins, double spacing, and a 12 point normal font. Quotations should not start sentences and should be smoothly incorporated into sentences with an explanation of their significance. Superfluous and "duh" words that do not add meaning should be removed.

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    English Language and Composition Style Sheet #3: The Death of Benny Paret 1/17/12 Titles of Academic Work: The title you give to a rhetorical analysis or other academic writing should be formal and indicate what the writing will be about. If you are writing about another work, include it in your title and italicize it to indicate its a title. Do NOT italicize (or bold or capitalize or enlarge or quote) your own title: The Death of Benny Paret: An Analysis Formatting: For ALL work you word process in ALL classes, use MLA format: 1 margins, double spaced, appropriate MLA heading, 12 pt. normal font. Quotations: Never start a sentence with a quotation. Introduce it with your own text (lead in), and incorporate it GRACEFULLY into your sentence so that your WHOLE SENTENCE makes sense. If appropriate, explain the significance of the quotation afterward. Quote: Do NOT use this word to refer to something you are quoting. Superfluous words: Leave them out. Especially, get rid of has the ability to; is able to; in the essay. Duh words: Also leave them out. He uses diction; He makes you want to keep reading; He throws in . . .; He uses syntax. Seriously? Duh.

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