Abstract

This tutorial will show you how to format your Abstract.

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 * 1) Make your heading
 * 2) Name
 * 3) Graduation Exit Project
 * 4) Teacher
 * 5) Date
 * 6) Make your header
 * 7) Double click the very top of your page when the header icon appears.
 * 8) Go to the Formatting bar at the top of your document and click the "Align Right" button.
 * 9) Click back into your header box and type in your last name and then a space.
 * 10) Click the "#" box in the Header Formatting box to insert page numbers into your header.
 * 11) Click Close.
 * 12) Highlight your entire heading click "Format", click "Paragraph", look for "Line Spacing" and select 1.5 or "Double"
 * 13) This is a screen shot of what a correctly formatted Heading and Header look like:
 * 1) Go down two lines and click "Align Center" and then type your title.
 * 2) Start typing your introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. When finished, start on a new page.
 * 3) Highlight your entire Abstract and follow instruction #3 to make sure that your Abstract is either 1.5 or double spaced.
 * 4) Your new page will be your Works Cited. Click Align Center and title the page "Works Cited"
 * 5) Copy and paste all of the sources that you used from your Annotated Reference List onto the works cited. Make sure that they are in alphabetical order. You do not need to copy the descriptions of the source that are on your Annotated Reference List.

Abstract Tips:

Internal Citations

When putting a internal citation into your abstract keep this in mind:

(Authors Last Name Page number of that source that you got your information) EX. (Smith 2)

If you used that source for only one sentence, your internal citation would look like this:

In a study conducted by the Pew Research Center 77 percent of those surveyed rate the media’s coverage as excellent or good (Alterman 1).

If you used that source for an entire paragraph, your internal citation would look like this:

The network says that is has decided to profess neutrality when everyone else is choosing sides. CNN’s John King says that he believes this will help the network become much more objective and make it more essential that everyone working with the station to rely on facts. (Lowry 1). The media is always changing because its audience is always changing. Therefore, it is difficult to pinpoint the main areas of flaw and success within it. There have been a few memorable mistakes of the media, but at the same time there are certainly a few valid reasons for why the media chooses to report information the way that it does (2).