Students: headings on your paper

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

In high school, I did something like

NAME
CLASS/period

The bare minimum. I always wondered why you needed date. HW assignments inherently have a date attached so why? In college I did the bare minimum too:

Name
Student ID

My gf and I are currently discussing this because I always stuffed my headers at the very top (in the case of a word doc, I would use the header function). However she puts it in the main document itself and double spaces it like the rest of her paper. To me that's like utter BS and a waste of space. It's like a fat intro paragraph already. She puts stuff like professor's name, date and class.

We're just discussing paper length and how she's short a few lines. To me I never had a problem hitting the limit, and it boggles me when people use an ugly Office 2003 1.25" margin with fat text. Then they deliberately try to extend with a fat header like my gf is doing and a fat title all double spaced.

I just looked back at a few papers my senior year and they're 11pt Calibri with 1" margins. No extra 10pt spacing like Office 2007 does and my headings were thrown to the header portion.

 

[Crusty]

Cover page ftw

 

[Leros]

My thought has always been: if my paper gets dropped in a hallway, what is the information that is needed so my paper gets back to my professor?

I put:

Name
Class
Prof
Class time

Assignment Name

 

[dbk]

yeah, office 2007 is retarded like that

 

[GenHoth]

Paper title, author, prof, date. Something like that

 

[MovingTarget]

All that info goes on the cover sheet. page headers may just include your name and page #. You are right, on every page it is a huge waste of space.

 

[MovingTarget]

.....then again, I haven't used Word to type an actual report in years. Normally, LaTeX takes care of the formatting for me.

 

[drinkmorejava]

If you don't have a cover page

MLA is:

header in top right: LAST NAME [page number] excluding the first page, where you have

left aligned
[FULL NAME]
[PROF NAME]
[CLASS NAME]
[DAY MONTH YEAR] where month is spelled out
center aligned
[TITLE]

 

[nonameo]

I just put a kissy mark on it. All the teachers know who it came from.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
If you don't have a cover page

MLA is:

header in top right: LAST NAME [page number] excluding the first page, where you have

left aligned
[FULL NAME]
[PROF NAME]
[CLASS NAME]
[DAY MONTH YEAR] where month is spelled out
center aligned
[TITLE]

Truth. However, there are other official styles than MLA as well...

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: nonameo
I just put a kissy mark on it. All the teachers know who it came from.

I wonder what you do for the extra credit assignments.

 

[novasatori]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
If you don't have a cover page

MLA is:

header in top right: LAST NAME [page number] excluding the first page, where you have

left aligned
[FULL NAME]
[PROF NAME]
[CLASS NAME]
[DAY MONTH YEAR] where month is spelled out
center aligned
[TITLE]

yep, MLA is how I did it every time

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: novasatori

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
If you don't have a cover page

MLA is:

header in top right: LAST NAME [page number] excluding the first page, where you have

left aligned
[FULL NAME]
[PROF NAME]
[CLASS NAME]
[DAY MONTH YEAR] where month is spelled out
center aligned
[TITLE]

yep, MLA is how I did it every time

ditto, though I'd put the abbreviation of the class instead of the full name (ie: ENGL403, not Women of Literature in the 18th Century or what have you)

 

[Lonyo]

I just did cover sheet + name in top right using Header in Word.
Then either stapled it together or put in in a plastic wallet.

 

[imported_Imp]

The following got me through college for basic assignments not done on "stationary":


Name
Student Number


Course Topic Date

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember having to make a cover sheet. I had this template I used as teachers were usually anal about the order of stuff, and it was usually seperated into 3 sections, top, middle, and bottom. Conveniently all teachers had the same format though, so one template did the job.

For really quick assignments (usually ones they don't mark, but just check) I would just write my name and date on top, usually name on left and date on right, on same line.