Rules for layouts of exercises and written work in English.

Goal:

Provide students with a model layout for written work and class exercises in order to improve their formal written skills.

Format:

• Always use white paper, except when the subject requires a different type of paper.
• Margins: left (wider) and right, upper and lower.
• Always state your full name, subject, group and title.

Handwriting and tidiness:

Use either black or blue ink, but NO pencil.

• Your handwriting must be readable and neat.
• Check your spelling.
• Avoid blots and smudges. Just cross out. Do not overuse 'typex’.

Lines and Paragraphs:

• Horizontal lines
• Gaps between paragraphs must be wider than between lines.
• Paragraph beginnings must be indented.

Underlining

• Use underlining moderately and always in the same colour.
• The titles of the books must be underlined and quotations withinverted commas.

Written Essays

• They must include cover, index and bibliography.
• Pages must be numbered.
• Sheets must be either stapled or clipped, or inserted in a plastic file.