Unwanted blank page inserted at the beginning of a document [closed]

Question

I'm using TeXnicCenter, trying to write a LaTeX document using the article document class, and it keeps inserting a blank page at the beginning of the document.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{article}

\usepackage[a4paper, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multicol}% enable use of multicolumns in specific area of the document
\usepackage{natbib}

\graphicspath{Literature_review/}

\bibliographystyle{agufull08}

\begin{document}

\title{}
\author{}
\date{}
\maketitle

\end{document}

It seems to compile without the blank page when I use TeXworks (as part of MiKTeX), but it's less practical for me to use that than TeXnicCenter.