1. Title Page:

Title: choose a title that provides the reader a hint of the thesis and content of your paper. Include your name, course number and name, and date.

2. Pagination:

Pages should be numbered (except for the first page) on the bottom right.

4. Footnotes

This paper should include citations in the Chicago Manual of Style, in the notes/bibliography format. This means that each time you use a quote from a source, or paraphrase directly from a source, you need to place a superscripted number after the period at the end of the sentence. This number will refer to a footnote at the bottom of the page.  Microsoft Word and most word processing programs will do this automatically for you. 

Here is a tutorial to help you format a Chicago Style document properly and insert footnotes.

https://libguides.tncc.edu/c.php?g=885078&p=6367142 (Links to an external site.)

5. Bibliography

At the end of the paper, please include an bibliography of all of the sources that were used/were useful to you in writing the paper.  This includes sources that you cited in the footnotes as well as background sources that you did not use directly in the writing.

6. Illustrations

Please feel free to include as many illustrations as you would like.  They can be integrated into the text pages, or attached as an appendix to the paper before the bibliography. 

Each image should contain a “figure number,” and a caption that includes the name of the image, location, date and source of the image.  For instance:

Figure 1 Facade of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, 1163-1345 (Wikimedia Commons)

In choosing which images to include, select ones that link directly to the points you are making in the text.  Rather than including a random set of images that relate to your designers, choose only ones that help support the points and ideas you are writing about.  Help guide the reader from the text to the relevant image, and from image to the relevant text by including the figure number, in parentheses, at the end of the sentence which discusses or refers to the image. For instance:

Unlike the round-arched entryways used in Romanesque churches, the Gothic style introduced by churches like Notre Dame incorporated pointed arches. (fig. 1).

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