Computer Science Department

University at Albany

Style Sheet

There are a handful of writing conventions that should be followed for writing assignments in this course.

• All papers should be typed.

• All pages should be stapled together.

• Margins should be 1 inch at the top, bottom, and sides.

• Standard typestyles should be used with standard point sizes (typically no less than 10 points nor more than 12 points). There are typographic rules associated with the relationships of font size and line length.

• A cover page is not necessary.

• Put your name on your paper, but not your SSN.

• Indicate the page number (preferably in a header or footer rather than forcing page breaks or hand-writing in page numbers). Your writing program will do this automatically for you forever if you take the time to set up a template.

• Spell checking is expected, but remember spell checking will not identify a word that is spelled correctly, but wrong for the context (like using "hear" when you mean "here").

• Proof-read.

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Last updated: 1/14/10