Do not default to using chicago style guidelines you find online.

This paper must be over the film WILD, 2014 Jean-Marc Vallee.
The submission must consist of a complete title and a single developed paragraph that could serve as the beginning of an 8-10 page completed paper. The paragraph should have a clearly identifiable thesis and be focused on critical analysis of form and meaning. The paragraph should not be a summary of the film’s plot or simple description of formal technique. Each paragraph should make an interpretive claim along with details and context that provide a blueprint for the supporting evidence and analysis that would come in the rest of the paper should it be completed. Your thesis sentence must be underlined. No late papers or email submissions will be accepted for responses Response papers will be graded on a pass/fail basis using five criteria:
1.Title: A complete and engaging title identifies both topic and purpose.
2.Knowledge: Demonstrates that you are intimately familiar with the film.
3.Style and mechanics: Well-written and closely proofread.
4.Formatting: Follows all of the formatting guidelines and length requirements.
5.Interpretation: Makes a compelling argument that expands understanding.
Papers must meet
the following guidelines:
1. Papers must be submitted as PDF documents. No other formats will be accepted.
2. Use Times New Roman font throughout, including name, title and endnotes.
3. Use 12-point font size throughout, including name, title, and endnotes.
4. Align your paragraphs to the left.
5. Do not center or justify your paragraphs.
6. Do not include a cover page.
7. The first page (and only the first page) must include the student’s name, course number/title, and date at the top left of the page in three single-spaced lines.
8. The paper title must be one double-space below the date in bold 12-point font, centered.
9. Your first body paragraph should begin one double-spaced line below the title and indented.
10. The entire body of the paper must be double-spaced with no additional spacing between paragraphs.
11. Do not use headings or subheadings on any paper that is under ten pages in length.
12. Indent the first line of each paragraph.
13. Use standard 1” margins throughout.
14. Use the most recent Chicago Manual of Style guidelines for citations. Chicago style requirements only apply to citations for this course. For all other formatting issues, use the professor’s guidelines. Do not default to using Chicago style guidelines you find online.
15. Use endnotes for citations (not footnotes or parenthetical citations).
16. Endnotes must be single-spaced.
17. Endnotes must use traditional numbering (1, 2, 3, 4…) rather than letters or Roman numerals.
18. Do not include a works cited page or bibliography unless one or both are expressly requested by the professor in the paper prompt.
19. Every page below the minimum or above the maximum length requirement will result in an automatic grade deduction. While the size of the deduction is left to the professor’s discretion, each page under the minimum page count will likely result in the drop of a full letter grade. If there are formatting errors that artificially extend the length of a paper, an approximation of the real page count will be made along with appropriate penalties.
Appendix II: Chicago Manual of Style Citations
As a discipline, Film Studies uses Chicago Manual of Style guidelines for citations.
Therefore, we will be using Chicago citations as opposed to MLA or APA. Chicago uses footnotes or endnotes (my courses require endnotes) to reference sources in the text. Unlike MLA and APA, it does not use parenthetical citations.
Superscript numbers are placed after sentences with a quote, paraphrase, reference, or fact that need citation.
Citation numbers must appear in sequential order.
As the name suggests, endnotes appear at the end of the paper. You may use a separate page or place endnotes a few spaces below your last body paragraph. Either way, title the section Notes in bold font.
The endnote for the first time a reference is cited must include all of the bibliographic information (author’s name, title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, pages referenced, etc.)
If the source has already been cited, the endnote should be shortened to the author’s name, abbreviated title (if necessary), and page number.
The exception to the previous rule is that if the citation was referenced immediately prior (consecutive use of same source), the note should be shortened using ibid. “Ibid.” will be followed by the page number if it’s different than the previous citation. If the reference uses the same page number as the previous citation then “Ibid.” appears alone without a page number.