Thus the first step is planning your time well . Try to plan your time so that your professor has time to look over a rough draft for evaluation and suggestions before you turn in the final draft. We recommend that you take advantage of it. Please type and double space all papers. A cover page is not necessary, but we appreciate page numbering and proper use of footnotes and references .
Outlines are also highly desirable, especially if integrated into the text as section headings.
The inclusion of an outline as the beginning of the paper is a good alternative that is helpful to the paper writer and to the reader alike. Charts and tables are sometimes a valuable enhancement of a paper, and are fairly easy to do in Microsoft Word . See the bottom of this document for some tips. It's always a nice touch to add footnotes or endnotes especially for comments or explanations not essential in the text. Quotations are a major feature of any research enterprise.