This guide is available for downloading in the DOWNLOADS section of the Library Website.
The Quabbin Regional High School Style Manual and Writing Guide serves as a reference guide for students, faculty, and staff at Quabbin Regional High School.
This style manual and writing guide is an attempt to standardize the presentation of significant writing projects at Quabbin Regional High School with the belief that consistency, repetition and reinforcement will improve performance by students. The style manual and guide is also intended to aid teachers by providing expectations and direction for format.
For the purposes of this booklet, “significant writing projects” will be interpreted as any paper whose final format requires manuscript form, including, but not limited to, research papers, formal essays, and analytical papers. The booklet does not apply to minor assignments or classroom work.
Like most in-house style guides, this volume is unique in its attempt to be simultaneously simple, usable and thorough. As such, it attempts to address the most common needs of teachers and students through instruction and example, but it cannot anticipate every situation.
This guide is primarily based on adaptations of:
- The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. B. Joseph Gibaldi.
- Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger
- Keys for Writers: A Brief Handbook by Ann Raims.
- The Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.
- The Research Paper by Sharon Sorenson.
While this guide provides uniform formats and policies, teachers must still assume responsibility for teaching those elements of writing for which they hold students accountable.