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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

writing standards and style

While I'm being bossy I thought we should agree upon format style so we can begin writing from the go in sync and not have to reformat as we approach publication.

1) I suggest MLA reserach paper standards, 7th edition. The "friends of the library" bookstore has a couple of older editions for sale for $1, 5th and 6th, the updates in the 7th mostly have to do with citing web sources.

2) 12 point, Times New Roman, 1 inch margins all around, 0.5 inch headers and footers, MLA page numbers with your name.

3) Save all files in .doc NOT .docx. Only the latest version of Office can open .dotx files, I don't have the latest version and I'm sure more than a few of us don't as well.

Let me know if that's agreeable and if there should be more

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