Formatting Resources
This site contains guidelines, templates, and examples of MFA program paper formatting for short annotated bibliographies, cumulative annotated bibliographies, critical papers, and final manuscripts. In addition, students will find information and deadlines for the format review process as well as other writing resources provided by the university. Please review all details before submitting your papers to your mentor and/or the format review team.
Papers that are sent to mentors ONLY (do not send these to the MFApaperwork account):
Monthly annotations
Short annotated bibliographies
Short critical paper
Papers that are sent to the format review team after mentor approval (do not send this to the MFApaperwork account):
Long critical paper
Final Manuscript
Cumulative annotated bibliography
*Note that the above work does not need to be sent to the program office. Papers that are sent to mentors will be evaluated in the end-of-term narrative evaluation. Papers that are sent to format reviewers will be forwarded to the program office for archiving after reviewer approval.