 | In
the upper left corner of the first page, include the writer's name, due date, slugline (no more than a three-word description of the
story), and word count.
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| Always
double space the body of the article.
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| The first sentence
in each paragraph should not be tabbed or indented. Instead, please include an
extra line between paragraphs.
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| Hit the space bar
once, not twice, after periods or colons.
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| Place attribution
after quotes instead of before. Here's an example:
"Quotes
add credibility and strength to articles, and we should see the first quote in
about the third sentence," says Paula Dixon, faculty advisor for Emmanuel
Columns newspaper.
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On the last page of
the story, even if the last page is also the first, type "###" without quotation marks to indicate the end of the story.
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Learn to compose at the
keyboard. Do not write stories by hand and then type them.
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| Avoid writing in
passive voice. Construct sentences in this order: subject-verb-object (SVO).
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