Manuscript

900. Write upon only one side of the paper.

901. Place the title upon the first line, or about two inches from the top of the sheet.

902. Leave one line blank between the title and the body of the composition.

903. Write legibly and without flourishes, using black ink.

904. Number the pages in the upper right-hand corner.

905. Leave the space of the letter m after each mark of punctuation within the sentence, and the space of three m’s after marks of end punctuation.

906. Never crowd a word in order to get it all upon one line. Divide the word and mark the division with a hyphen.

907. Place the hyphen that marks the division of a word at the end of a line after the first part of the word. Do NOT place a hyphen before the second part of the word. Divide a word only at the end of a syllable.

908. Maintain a left-hand margin of at least an inch, and endeavor to keep the right-hand margin even.

909. Indent each paragraph half an inch.

910. Never write below the last line upon a ruled sheet. In typewritten manuscript leave at least half an inch at the bottom of the page.