Discussion: Pregnancy and delivery

Your mother, or any mother of a child your age (not a mother who is your age)

Format

Interview should be 3-5 pages in length (not including cover/bibliography pages). It should be typed using a 10 or 12 point font size and double spaced. The cover page should include a title, your name, class information and due date.

Introduction

Include the person’s name, and indicate whether this is your mother or the mother of a child your age (Edith, a mother of a child my age)

Pregnancy/Birth Interview Suggestions

Your interview might include, but not be limited to, the following questions: (the answer could be anything relative to the question, doesn’t have to be from a real interview)

Conclusion

Summarize your interview. What did you learn about pregnancy and delivery, and how is this different from current pregnancies and deliveries? Did you learn anything new about yourself? About your mother, or mothers who gave birth around the time you were born?

Requirements: 3 to 5 pages

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.