1. For this class, you do not need a folder or even a cover sheet for your paper. Your name and your essay’s title on the first page is sufficient.

2. To provide evidence for the claims you make in your essay, it is frequently necessary to quote relevant passages from the primary works you are writing on. There are a few things to keep in mind in selecting and presenting the quotations in your essay.

a. Be sure to choose a passage from the work that is clearly relevant to the point that you are trying to make.

b. Always connect the passage you are quoting to one of your sentences. Use a colon or a comma to link the quotation.

c. Use the sentence to which you link the quotation to introduce or signal the quotation and bring out its relevance or to further develop its significance.

d. Be sure to shape you sentence and adjust the quotation, if necessary, in order to maintain a clear and correct syntax.

e. Be sure to identify and locate the source of your quotation.

f. These rules also apply to quoting from secondary sources.

3. At times if you feel your point doesn’t need the support of a direct quotation, you may paraphrase a small section of the text. Please remember you have to identify and locate the sources of your paraphrases.

4. When you quote poetry (like The Oresteia), be sure to either preserve the verse-lines, by separating and indenting the quotation, or, for very brief quotations within your text, by using a slash (/) to indicate the end of a verse-line.

5. Avoid agreement errors. Remember pronouns must agree with their antecedents in gender, number, and case.