HOW TO PREPARE YOUR ROUGH DRAFT WITH A TITLE PAGE

Instructions for starting your rough draft with the title page:

On the next page read the APA format requirements of a title page, and look at the sample title-page on the Right. Then open Microsoft Office Word 2007, and start your Descriptive Essay by making your own title page and saving it to the LIBS100 folder on the S-drive of the campus network. Save the document with the file-name “descriptive_essay,” so that it can be distinguished easily from your other essays.

Format of Title Page

Sample Title Page

A running head (short title) is placed in the upper Left corner. The page number is in the upper Right corner. Follow these steps: ·         In Word 2007 choose the tab for Insert. ·         Select the ribbon for Page Number, and choose option 1 for upper Left corner. ·         Type the short title in front of the page number with a space between them. ·         While the cursor is between the short title and the page #, hold down the spacebar until the page # moves to the Right edge. ·         Finally click the ribbon for Close Header & Footer. ·         The format for the running head and page # of the sample essays in your textbooks is  different than the format in the Publication Manual of the APA. If you choose to follow the textbooks, then you must be consistent. Use a consistent font size on all pages. APA requires font Times Roman in size 12. The APA style does not use color. All lines are double-spaced. Note that the illustrated pages in the Right column in this handout are sample pages: Do not copy exactly all of the words. For example your career, name, section, and/or date differ from the sample.

	Descriptive Essay                                                                1 A Descriptive Essay about the Job of Crime Scene Investigator Johnny Cochran Bryant & Stratton College LIBS100, Sunday section Dr. Mark Spivey November 17, 2009

Instructions for starting your rough draft with the title page:

On the next page read the APA format requirements of a title page, and look at the sample title-page on the Right. Then open Microsoft Office Word 2007, and start your Descriptive Essay by making your own title page and saving it to the LIBS100 folder on the S-drive of the campus network. Save the document with the file-name “descriptive_essay,” so that it can be distinguished easily from your other essays.