Q Your paper should be double-spaced with margins of one inch on all sides, with numbered pages except the first, and Times New Roman 12 point font. The writing style should be professional quality and avoid slang, colloquialisms, and contractions. It should be grammatically correct. Avoid common errors such as paragraphs consisting of only one sentence, misplaced or missing commas, and confused homonyms. Use your computer's spelling and grammar checkers, and proof read . If you have writing difficulty, refer to Strunk and White's (2000) Elements of Style (available at www.amazon.com), take advantage of tutoring at the Graduate Writing Center in room 001-03 on the third floor of the Science Building (287-5708), or contact Professor Lisa Gonsalves (287-7642) who helps students in MTEL preparation. APA Style help • APA Style Wizard • APA-Style.org Citations All material taken from other's writing, even if reworded, must be cited and the reference included in the text with the author's name and the year of publication. Include page numbers only when you make a direct quote. If an article has more than one author and the citation is in parentheses, use an ampersand (Gottman & Gottman, 1999) but if it is cited within the narrative spell out the word ‘and' like this: Strunk and White (1999). Internet sites are cited like this (www.gottman.com). If you cite an article you know only because it is referenced by another author, attribute both, like this: Huston and Vagelisti (1991, as cited in Sigelman, 1999). Please note that omitting references is plagiarism and violates the academic code of honor. Resources All resources used as sources in writing the paper must be listed alphabetically in a reference list at the end of the paper (see example below). The journal article sequence is: author's last name, author's initials, publication year, title of article with only the first word capitalized, italicized title of journal with all major words capitalized, italicized volume number, and page numbers. See Huston and Vangelisti (1991) in this paper's bibliography for an example. The book sequence is: author's last name, author's initials, publication year, the italicized title of book with only the first word capitalized, the publication location, and the publisher. See Sigelman (2000), American Psychological Association (2001), and Strunk and White (2000) as examples. The book chapter sequence is: author's last name, author's initials, publication year, title of chapter with only the first word capitalized, the editors' names, the italicized title of book with only the first word capitalized, the pages of the chapter, the publication location, and the publisher. See Gottman and Gottman (1999) for an example. Web pages have the author, publication date (if unknown, write n.d.), the title of the article, retrieval date, and web address. See Gottman Institute (2001).