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.
The typical rule of thumb is that if a quote is longer than three lines, it should be typed indented five spaces, single spaced, and without quotation marks. Note the position of the final period. Proper reference form can be tricky and are explained in the next several pages. Here are some of the conventions. All material less than three lines in length taken directly from a book, article, or other source should be placed in quotation marks.