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For short papers, say 6 to 10 pages, you will probably not need an extra, unnumbered page for the title. Rather all pages will be numbered and you will only need one page style for the whole document, namely '''Default'''. Instead of a standalone title page you will simply reserve the first quarter or so of the first text page for general information on the document:
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For short papers, say 6 to 10 pages, you don’t really need a title page. All you need is an “information section” (see illustration 22) taking up at most a quarter of the first page and containing following information:
* title
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* title / topic
 
* course number
 
* course number
 
* lecturer’s name
 
* lecturer’s name
 
* author(s)
 
* author(s)
 
* student ID
 
* student ID
* date
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* date / deadline
* and lastly a separator line
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* an empty line followed by a separator line (shortcut: two or three '''Dashes + Return''') followed by another empty line
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I would recommend using '''Bold''' font, size '''14pt''' for the information section.
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[[File:wfs017-short_paper_no_title.png|none]]
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'''Illustration 22. A short paper without a title page'''
  
{{Documentation/Note|Please do not confuse this leading paragraph with a ''Header''. A Header gets repeated on each page, your lead paragraph only appears once on the first page and not on subsequent pages (see illustration 17).}}
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The actual text should begin immediately below the separator line and all pages including this first one should be numbered – preferably in the page footer rather than the header so as to avoid visual conflict with the information section. If you really want page numbering on top of the page, then you will need two page styles, one '''First Page''' with no header and the rest '''Default''' with header for numbering. The second page will automatically be numbered '''2'''.
  
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{{Documentation/Note|''Note'': Do not confuse this ''information'' section with a ''header''. A header gets repeated on each page,
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your information section appears only once on the very first page.}}
 
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Revision as of 13:21, 19 May 2014



For short papers, say 6 to 10 pages, you don’t really need a title page. All you need is an “information section” (see illustration 22) taking up at most a quarter of the first page and containing following information:

  • title / topic
  • course number
  • lecturer’s name
  • author(s)
  • student ID
  • date / deadline
  • an empty line followed by a separator line (shortcut: two or three Dashes + Return) followed by another empty line

I would recommend using Bold font, size 14pt for the information section.

Wfs017-short paper no title.png

Illustration 22. A short paper without a title page

The actual text should begin immediately below the separator line and all pages including this first one should be numbered – preferably in the page footer rather than the header so as to avoid visual conflict with the information section. If you really want page numbering on top of the page, then you will need two page styles, one First Page with no header and the rest Default with header for numbering. The second page will automatically be numbered 2.

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