A long English thesis (such as English graduation thesis) usually needs a title page, and its writing format is as follows: the distance between the first line title and the top of the printing paper is about one third of the total length of the printing paper, the distance between the first line title and the next line (usually in the center) is 5cm, and the third and fourth lines are the author's name and date (both in the center) respectively. If the English thesis is written by a student for a course, the academic title and name of the teacher (such as Dr/Professor C Prager) and the number or name of the course (such as English 734 or English novel) should be marked between the author's name and date. When printing, if there is no special requirement, each line should be double-spaced, that is, interlaced printing, with a line spacing of about 0.6cm (the line spacing of other parts of the paper is the same).

As far as students are concerned, if English papers are short, they can also type the contents of the title page in the upper left of the first page of the text instead of making the title page (and outline page). The first line is the author's name, about 2.5cm from the top of the printing paper. The following lines are the teacher's title and surname, course number (or name) and date in turn; The left side of each row is aligned up and down, leaving a margin of about 2.5cm (the same below). Then there is the title and body of the paper (between the date and the title, between the title and the first line of the body, you only need to print alternately, without leaving more blanks).

Second, the English paper outline

The English paper outline page includes the topic sentence and the outline itself, and its standard format is as follows: type the word Thesis and colon at the beginning of the first line (still about 2.5cm from the top of the printing paper), then type the topic sentence after leaving a space, and the left side should be aligned with the first letter of the topic sentence when returning. The main outline is marked with capital Roman numerals, and the secondary outline is marked with capital English letters, Arabic numerals and lowercase English letters in turn. Add a dot after each number or letter, and type the first letter of the content with a blank space; The top, bottom and left sides of the same level of contour must be aligned. It should be noted that there must be more than two equally important programs, that is, I should have II, A should have B, and so on. If the outline of an English paper is long and needs two pages, the page number of the second page must be marked with lowercase Roman numerals in the upper right corner, that is, ii (the first page does not need to be numbered).

Third, the text of English papers

For English papers with title page and outline page, the standard format of the first page of the text is: the title of the paper is centered, about 5cm from the top of the printing paper and about 1.5cm from the first line of the text. The first letter of a paragraph must be indented by five spaces, that is, starting from the sixth space. The first page of the text does not need to be numbered (but the page number should be calculated). Starting from the second page, the author's surname must be indicated in the upper right corner of each page (that is, the first line at the back is vacant), and the page number should be indicated with Arabic numerals after a space is vacant; Arabic numeral (or its last digit) should be the last space in the line. Pay attention to the printing format of punctuation marks when printing the text, that is, leave two spaces after the end of the sentence (period, question mark and exclamation point) and one space after other punctuation marks.

Four. Quotations in English papers

It is an important link in writing English papers to quote the original works or the opinions of experts and scholars correctly. We should not only pay attention to the organic unity of citation and paper, that is, its logic, but also pay attention to the standardization of citation format (that is, English paper references). Quote other people's opinions, either directly or indirectly. In any case, the author of the paper must indicate the author and source of the quoted text. At present, the common practice in American academic circles is to indicate the author and source of the quotation in brackets after the quotation. According to the different situations cited in this paper, some standard formats are described as follows.

1. If the citation is less than three lines, the citation can be organically integrated into the paper. For example:

The separation of Arnold's personal desire and inheritance led to "a familiar picture of Victorian men living alone in a strange universe" (Roper 9).

Here, the Roper in brackets is the last name of the author of the citation (full name is not required); Arabic numerals are the page numbers of quotations (don't write P.9); There should be a space between the author's surname and the page number, but punctuation is not needed; The period should be placed after the second parenthesis.

2. If the cited text exceeds three lines, the citation should be separated from the text of the paper, as shown in the following example:

Whitman has proved himself to be an outstanding representative and pioneer of the Democratic Party, and his "democratic prospect" is an admirable and unique attack. If anyone regrets Whitman's failure to imagine the extreme crisis of society in his book, then it is certain that no society will tolerate that all citizens cannot find freshness in their active democratic ideology. (Datong 165) (Source: Academic Hall)