Instead, beginning one inch from the top of the first page and flush with the left margin, type your name, your instructor's name, the course number, and the date on separate lines, double-spacing between the lines. Double-space again and center the title. Do not underline your title or put it in quotation marks or type it in all capital letters. Type your last name before the page number as a precaution in case of misplaced pages. Do not use the abbreviation p . before a page number.
Quotations are effective in research papers when used selectively.
Quote only words, phrases, lines, and passages that are particularly interesting, vivid, unusual, or apt., and keep all quotations as brief as possible. Overquotation can bore your readers and might lead them to conclude that you are neither an original thinker nor a skillful writer. If a prose quotations runs no more than four lines and requires no special emphasis, put it in quotation marks and incorporate it into the text. You need not always reproduce complete sentences. Sometimes you may want to quote just a word or phrase as part of your sentence.