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RESEARCH PAPER CHECK LIST:: RESEARCH PAPER CHECK LIST: by Don L. F. Nilsen
DOCUMENTATION AND FORMAT:: DOCUMENTATION AND FORMAT: BI: Basic Information on first page:
1). Your Name
2). Instructor's Name
3). Course Identification
4). Semester and Year
5). Descriptive (not cutesy) Research-Paper Title
Works Cited:: Works Cited: Boyle, Anthony T. 'The Epistemological Evolution of Renaissance Utopian Literature.' Diss. New York U, 1983.
Clark, Herbert H., and Thomas H. Carlson. 'Etcetera.' Language 58.4 (1982): 332-373.
Clark, Kenneth. What is a Masterpiece? London, England: Thames, 1979.
Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Jessie Coulson. New York, NY: Norton, 1964.
Kakutani, Michiko. '`Now and Then': A Memoirist Who Disregards the Details.' The New York Times On the Web. 22 February 1998. andlt;http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/22/daily/keller-book-review.htmlandgt; (24 February 1998).
O’Connor, Flannery. 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own.' The Realm of Fiction. Ed. James B. Hall. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977, 479-488.
DOCUMENTATION IN GENERAL:: DOCUMENTATION IN GENERAL: Doc: See Documentation Page
DP: Documentation Page(s) Missing
M: Margins: Top, bottom, left, and right margins should all be one inch
NDoc: No Documentation
PN: Page Numbers Missing (e.g. articles in WC should contain inclusive pages)
Quote: Quotes around Minor Titles (e.g. articles)
Und: Underline Major Titles (e.g. books)
MLA DOCUMENTATION IN PARTICULAR:: MLA DOCUMENTATION IN PARTICULAR: Cite: In-Text Citation should be: '...' (234).
DSE: Double Space Everything:
HI: Hanging Indentation: At the beginning of the Entry: CONTROL T
LQ: Long Quotations: If a quotation is more than five lines in length, it should be indented ten spaces from the left. Do not use quotation marks with long quotes.
NWC: Not in Alphabetical Works Cited under this word
MY PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS:: MY PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS:
Font: Font should be twelve point
NBP: No Blank Pages
NMLA: Not MLA Format
WC: You need at least three Works Cited scholarly articles or books (not web sites)
DEVELOPMENT:: DEVELOPMENT: TMB: Too much biography (not enough in-depth textual analysis)
TMS: Too much Summary; you need more in-depth analysis
TP: Too personal or rambling
Trans: Abrupt Transition
SENTENCE GRAMMAR:: SENTENCE GRAMMAR: Awk: Awkward
BG: Bad Grammar or Punctuation
CS: Comma Splice (Sentence , Sentence)
Dash: (Dash --, Hyphen -)
Frag: Sentence Fragment
Inc: Incomplete
SC: Semi-Colon Missuse (should be Sentence; Sentence)
PUNCTUATION:: PUNCTUATION: Ampersand
Asterisk
Brackets
Comma
Colon
Dash
Exclamation Point
Hyphen
Parentheses
Period
Question Mark
Semicolon
WORD GRAMMAR:: WORD GRAMMAR: Ant: Vague or Missing Antecedant
Pred: Predication Error
Sp: Check Spelling
Word: Word Missing or Wrong Word
PROOFREADING AND TONE:: PROOFREADING AND TONE: Col: Colloquial (not appropriate in formal writing)('I,' 'you,' generic 'they,' rhetorical questions, imperatives, etc.)
Proofread: Proofread better
[Sic]: Error in original quote
Int: Integrate your quote better using '…'
Stet: Disregard my 'corrections'
US: Use your sources better
!THE BEST PAPERS WILL CONTAIN: !THE BEST PAPERS WILL CONTAIN A good opening paragraph with good foreshadowing and a good closing paragraph
Good argumentation
Good overall organization and transitions
Good paragraph development and good overall development
Good comparisons and contrasts
!!THE BEST PAPERS WILL ALSO: !!THE BEST PAPERS WILL ALSO Make significant generalizations and support them with appropriate details
Make insightful points
Have a good review of the literature
Develop interesting ironies and paradoxes
!!!AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, THE BEST PAPERS WILL: !!!AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, THE BEST PAPERS WILL Make an important contribution to the field of linguistics or language study
Slide15: Reference:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition. New York, NY: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003.