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Name: __________________________________________________
While peer review, tutoring, and conferences with your professor can certainly help to improve your drafts, sometimes you as the writer have to take responsibility for making sure that your paper meets the basic expectations of the assigned task. Please answer the following questions about your paper. You may copy and paste this document into a word processor, or you can do it by hand. When you are done, take a picture of any hand-submitted responses and turn in the physical copy. Email any digital copies with the subject line "ENG 101: Self-Review."
Length:
1. How many full pages is your paper (not included the works cited)? ___________
2. What fraction of the final page of written text (no the works cited) covers the final page of your paper? ______
3. Does your paper fall within the 5(full)-6 page length requirement? Yes / No
Introduction:
1. Are you doing the educational problem topic or the history topic? __________________________
2. Education topic (skip if doing history):
3. History Topic (Skip if doing education topic)
Body Paragraphs:
1. Does any paragraph start or end with a quote? If so, write a topic sentence that sets up the issue the quote is meant to start the paragraph with. If the quote is at the end, write a sentence that discusses the quote and concludes the paragraph to show how the quote supports your paragraph's main point.
2. Are there any paragraphs without any cited materials, be they quotes, paraphrased ideas, or facts you learned through your research? If so, find a citable piece of information to support your claim in the paragraph.
3. Do you have a strong transition at the beginning of the paragraph? If not, think about the relationship between the prior paragraph and the current one and write a point of comparison as the transition at the start of the new paragraph. Do not put the transition at the end of a paragraph.
4. Do you have any paragraphs shorter than four lines? If so, should you expand it or add it to another paragraph? Why or why not?
5. Do you have any body paragraphs longer than a page? If so, how might you break it up into smaller paragraphs?
Conclusion:
1. Do you avoid introducing new evidence in the conclusion that is not in the body? If so, can you move it to a related paragraph, or will you need a new body paragraph to get it out of the conclusion, where no new evidence should be introduced?
2. Do you restate your thesis in new words? Do you remind folks of the major points you made in the paper? If not, write out a sentence or two that does so to put in conclusion.
3. What are the broader points social implications of your thesis?
How is that conveyed in the conclusion? If you don't have a broader social point, what could you put in the conclusion?
Sources:
1. Does every quote have a signal phrase, quotation, citation, and discussion?
2. Do you use parenthetical citations that give the author's last name and page number?
3. Review the requirements types of sources for your topic (history or educational problems). How many of the following do you have? Does the list cover the minimum number and kind of sources required?
4. Block quotes:
5. Works Cited Page:
Format:
1. Did you follow MLA format for the page numbers, information block, title, and works cited page? What needs to be fixed?
2. Did you turn off the gap between paragraphs for the whole document?
3. Is the paper in Times New Roman 12 point font (including the header page number and works cited page?
4. Is the entire paper double spaced?
5. Does every paragraph start with a TAB indention of 0.5"?