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ESSAY CHECK
SHEET Essay #
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STRUCTURE
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Does the essay conform to the
assignment? |
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Does the essay attempt to make a
point? |
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Is the thesis sentence easy to
locate? (Hopefully, it’s the final sentence of paragraph #1.) |
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Is the thesis sentence written
properly? (announcement?) |
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Does each body paragraph contain a
clear topic sentence? |
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Are the body paragraphs logically
related and sequenced? |
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Are there structural problems with
any of the body paragraphs? Unity? (details that don’t belong) Coherence? (details out of order) Faulty logic? (fallacies and sophistries) Are there transitions and are they
effective? |
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CONTENT |
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Do the body paragraphs fully develop
the essay’s thesis? (overall completeness) |
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Is each body paragraph
sufficiently developed? (paragraph
completeness) (Does each body paragraph provide
adequate quality and quantity of details?) If not, which ones need more
attention? |
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Is the thought in the essay easy
to follow? (Does the essay use
effective transitions to move from point to point?) |
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Is the introductory paragraph
engaging? Would it make a reader want to read on? |
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Does the final paragraph contain
a comfortable and appropriate conclusion? |
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DELIVERY |
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Does the essay reflect thorough
revision and editing? |
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Does the essay conform to MLA/APA
guidelines for margins, line-spacing, citations, etc? |
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As the reader, do you feel
comfortable in the essay writer’s care? |
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Are there distracting mechanical
errors? If so,
which? Sentence
fragments? Comma
splices? Run-on
sentences?
Words commonly
confused (Homonyms) errors? Subject-verb
agreement errors? Singular/plural
errors? Pronoun
confusion (unclear antecedent?) Shift in
person (“it” or “they” to “you”) Diction
(Wording) problems? Wordiness? Clichés? Punctuation? Spelling?
Other? |
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If the essay contains other people’s
property—their words, ideas, illustrations, and the like), are documentation
(MLA or APA) guidelines correctly followed? |
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If applicable,
does the essay have a Works Cited (MLA) or References (APA) page(s)? |
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