Style Guide

All written assignments, no matter how small, should adhere to this style guide. You will not receive full credit for assignments that do not follow the formatting and citing instructions
below.

Format

. Font: . Spacing: ' Margins:

Citing your sources

Times New Roman, 12 point Double 1 inch

The source material for all quotations and paraphrases should be given as a parenthetical citation in the text, including an abbreviated title and page numbers or passage numbers. For example:

"The Master said: 'Exemplary persons seek harmony not sameness; petty persons, then, are the opposite"'(A, 13.23).

Hall and Ames contrast rational order with aesthetic order in terms of social organization, and they suggest that the two orders may be incompatible (TTC,
I 34-1

3s).

quotation.

All texts quoted or consulted in a paper should be listed in a bibliography.

See the

list of

required and optional texts in the syllabus for examples of how to format your bibliographical entries.

Using punctuation

Avoid the comma-splice error, in which a comma joins two complete sentences.
The Daodejing covers themes of enduring human concern, it thus remains a classic.

Instead, use semi-colons to join two separate, but related, complete sentences.
The Daodejlng covers themes of enduring human concern; it thus remains classic.
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Use a colon before lists, or to join a complete sentence to a phrase or phrases that expand on the sentence's main idea. For example: The Daodejing coverc themes of enduring human concern: the meaning of life, the origin of the universe, and the foundation for a peaceful society.

Know the differences between hyphens and dashes.

Let's get coffee. I need a little pick-me-up.

Let's get coffee-I need

little pick-me-up.

generally only be used when citing page numbers, or when giving the dates of someone's lifetime:

Confucius (551479 BCE)

can create the n-dash by typing a space before and after a hyphen. You can create the mdash by typing two hyphens.

Formality

. ' .

Do not use apostrophes to shorten words (as in "can't"). Do not use unnecessary abbreviations in the body of your text (for example, "etc."). DO NOT use internet slang ("lol") or emoticons!

Avoid Excessive Wordiness

Not this: What Ames means is that he believes that earlier translations of the Daodejing are problematic. It is in your best interest to have your work completed on time. But this: Or even better: Ames believes that earlier Ames sees problems in translations of the Daodejing are earlier translations of the problematic. Daodejing. You should have your work completed on time. You should complete your work on time.

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