• Papers should be typed in some reasonable typeface, not to exceed 12 point, with standard margins. Standard margins are approximately 1" right, left, and bottom and 1.5" on the top. I do own a ruler, and I'll check if you have enormous margins.
• Your paper should have a title page and a bibliography. These are not part of the page count. Neither are tables/graphs/other illustrations.
• Your paper should be at least 10 pages and probably not more than 20 pages.
• Your pages must be numbered.
• You may use EITHER footnotes or endnotes. You may NOT use parenthentical citations that appear in the body of the paper. Any paper with parenthetical citations will be returned to you for correction.
• You may use any footnote/bibliography format that you choose, as long as it is consistent.
• Papers with more that three spelling errors will fail automatically. You have a spell checker. Use it!
• See notes below on citations and plagiarism.
• Your paper is graded on (1) content, (2) interest, (3) originality, and (4) technique.

CITATIONS AND PLAGIARISM

• In general, any idea or concept or fact that is not general knowledge and is not original should be cited appropriately.
• Plagiarism is remarkably easy to detect. Violators will, without exception, be talking to the appropriate academic authorities.
• Direct quotes MUST appear in quotation marks, but direct quotes should in general be used sparingly and only when the quote is written so uniquely (and interestingly) that it is not possible to paraphrase.
• Paraphrased ideas/facts from other sources must be cited appropriately.
• "Common knowledge" need not be cited, but you need to consider whether it really is common knowledge, something that most people could be expected to know, or not.
• Web sources must be carefully cited so that I can check them. Again, I don't care about citation format, but it must be that I can type your link into my computer and immediately find your source. Web pages do change, so it is often a good idea to print out your source pages (and provide them with your paper if you think it necessary).

PRESENTATIONS

• Unless otherwise specified, you will have 10 minutes to present and 5 minutes for questions. You can not go over this time.
• The idea of the presentation is to hit the highlights of your paper, not present the whole paper.
• You can use PowerPoint or overheads if desired. In general, these things make presentations better. However, less is really more when it comes to PowerPoint... minimize the content on your slides, put in only the main points, and don't use colors like red that tend to strobe when viewed. You should always check how your presentation will look on screen; many colors look really nice on a computer screen and terrible when projected.
• Part of the point of doing presentations is to get better at doing them. Presenters who (1) read extensively from paper or notecards, or (2) talk to the screen instead of the audience, or (3) don't speak loudly or clearly enough to be heard will be penalized.
• Dress is optional; however, it's not a bad idea to get used to dressing appropriately for presentations (especially since what usually happens is that the business students look great and the econ majors wear cutoffs, sigh...).
• Your presentation will be graded on (1) clarity and content, (2) interest, and (3) quality of presentation materials.
• If you're not interested in what you're saying, no one else will be, either.