Professional Documents
Culture Documents
INTRODUCTION
□ Does your background information/historical context give your reader enough information to properly
understand your essay?
□ Do you address who/what/when/where?
□ Does your thesis statement
o answer the thesis question?
o contain a “because” statement that has one BIG IDEA/IDEA UMBRELLA?
o address the counter-argument (potential criticisms of your position)?
□ Does your focus statement clearly preview your two themes (one for each body paragraph)?
PARENTHETICAL CITATION (Remember the handout we got on this for the Shi Huang Di essay?)
□ Do you provide necessary (and accurate) parenthetical citation (citation within the paragraphs in
parentheses)?
□ Are those citations correctly formatted?
WORKS CITED (This is when you should definitely check with the librarians.)
□ Do you provide accurate and correctly formatted Works Cited page?
□ Do you provide at least one database source and two credible web sources that you’ve actually used in
your essay or in preparation for your essay? If not, take it off the list.
□ Did you share your Noodle Bib project with me? If not, you need to. Right now.
PRINT OUT
□ final draft (with name on it)
□ Works Cited
□ Noodle Bib notecards
□ outline (if you did it electronically)