Today we are going to review the requirements for your essay.
In your essay, you were supposed to prove your thesis.
1. Does your thesis provide a subject that can be proven?
2. Do your blueprints support your thesis?
3. Body paragraphs: Does each begin with a transitional phrase and topic sentence
4. Are they ordered like your blueprint?
5. Do you provide specific support and contextual evidence in your body paragraphs? Do not just summarize and assume?
6. Conclusion paragraph
Structure:
MLA Format
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/
Essay Checklist
1. MLA Format
2. In-text citations
-Did you place quotation marks around direct quotes?
-Did you cite paraphrased material?
-In-text citation (Bradbury 150).
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3. Works Cited page
4. Peer edits?
5. Grammarly?
6. turnitin.com?
These essays must be resubmitted to www.turnitin.com
midnight tomorrow night: 11/1/16.
Essays submitted after the due date will receive a large deduction.
We will no longer be working on these essays in class.
Any questions, just ask!
