How To Write A Cover Page For A Term Paper

What is a Term Paper?
    A term is an academic form of writing done by students over an academic term or semester. It accounts for quite a large part of the final grade. Its primary objective is to describe an event, discuss a concept or argue a point usually covering a significant area in the course of study. It often issued at the beginning of the semester and submitted towards the end. All academic documents will have different formats and style of writing. All of them including the paper cover page will differ from one paper to the other and are necessary for their way.
Importance of the Term Paper Cover Page
    The cover page for term paper is as important as the content. It displays the title of the term paper, the author, the institution, class and registration number, timelines and the professor in charge. This page will not only be an identification tool for your work to all the examiners involved in marking, but also presents a first impression about you.
How to Format a Term Paper
    There are different methods of formatting academic writing with each having different specifications. The most common methods of formatting are the APA, MLA and Harvard styles. In all of these, the title page is always the first page. Tables and illustrations will have a different naming style, and so are the section headings and subheadings. If you are using the APA, for instance, this is how you are going to format your term paper.
    The paper layout will be the standard A4- 8.5 x 11" with a constant margin of 1” all round. The font will always be 12-pt, and the style as specified by the lecturer and most of the time you will be required to use New Times Roman or the Calibri fonts. You will apply a double spacing all through the text and a flush left text alignment. The space period after a sentence should always be one unless the professor states otherwise. The page numbers come on each page on the upper right margin, 0.5” from top and flush with the right margin. You insert your last name trailed by the page number.
Format of a Term Paper Cover page    
    The term paper cover page format is a simple concept to grasp. At the bottom of the page is a term paper cover page example. Before that, there are a number of checks for your cover page. It should contain a title, your name, your school, running head, and a page number-double spaced and centered on the page. The title should be clear, explicit, and clearly describes the objective of your paper. The running head should be in uppercase letters and not more than fifty characters long. Take a look.

MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY
Minneapolis, MN

Term Paper Title:

Abraham Lincoln’s Revolution

Class number, title, and credit:
HST-403 The US Civilization (6 semester hours)

By
Punkish Wangdu
St. George Minnesota, U.S.A.

July, 2010

Professor: Demello P. Ignatius, Ph.D.