Guidelines for Rough Daft Revision Process
[To be done over & over again]
q Does your paper adequately support or prove the thesis?
q Does your introduction capture your reader’s attention and provide significance and relevancy for your topic?
q Does your thesis statement give a specific narrowed subject and definite attitude?
q Do your body paragraphs combine effective quotations and meaningful summaries and paraphrased details?
q Does your paper present evidence from a wide variety of up-to-date sources?
q Have all unnecessary or irrelevant materials been deleted to allow for strong coherency?
q Have you created commentary transitions that link your documentation directly to your thesis/
q Have you remembered to incorporate sentences that clinch and transition between key specifics and focus aspects?
q Have you maintained short body paragraphs with dynamic topic sentences?
q Does your clincher paragraph reemphasize your thesis and give your readers a sense of completion or awareness with a universal appeal?
q Have you employed sophisticated sentence structure, incorporating sentence variety?
q Have you avoided wordiness and used clear, concrete specifics?
q Does your paper have a writer’s voice, a tone of persuasive ownership, instead of a third person reporter?
q Is your diction (vocabulary) effective with only some key repetitions?
q Does your title (not over five words in length) spark?
q Have you avoided plagiarism by completely documenting all sources?
q Is your works cited representative of only sources documented within your paper?
q Did you follow all title page, margin, and pagination rules?
q Have you proofread for all spelling, usage, and punctuation errors?
q Have you read your paper aloud for coherency?
q Have you carefully proofread each rough draft, taking your time between drafts to find new possibilities?