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Self-Assessment Sheet* Name: ______________________

Review your paper for the following components, and either make or suggest alterations where needed. Be sure to revise your paper thoroughly for the upcoming peer review, so that your peer is seeing an entirely new draft that adheres to all of the guidelines below. Also, make notes for yourself so that you might narrate the following structural elements to your peers before they begin their review.

1. INTRODUCTION: Identify the following:

❑ Include statement of purpose/thesis which puts forth an argument

❑ Criteria used in evaluation is realistic and effective

2. BODY: Check for the following

❑ Each body paragraph should begin with a concise topic sentence that forecasts the discussion in the coming paragraph

❑ Each topic sentence should tie directly back to the thesis, proving an aspect of your larger argument; therefore, every paragraph must be relevant to your thesis and designed to help forward your argument

❑ Each body paragraph should conclude by returning to the general statement provided in the topic sentence and offering a mini-conclusion of sorts

❑ Every sentence within each body paragraph should help to develop the argument made in the topic sentence

❑ Every argument needs a claim, warrant, and evidence. Evidence can consist of close-reading a textual example (in this case, your film or television series), or providing researched information.

❑ Sources are accurately cited (using MLA)

3. STRUCTURE: Check for the following

❑ Organization should be deliberate: you should be able to justify every structural choice in the paper, and explain the development of your argument

❑ All paragraphs (including intro paragraphs, body, and conclusion) should provide transition sentences in-between at the start of the following paragraph

4. CONCLUSION: Check for the following

❑ Should tie together all of the smaller topic sentences throughout the body (which each address a part of the thesis argument) into one cohesive (thesis) argument

❑ Should discuss why the thesis argument is important in a larger context

NEXT STAGE OF REVISION:

❑ Before you finalize your next draft, read your paper out loud: you will catch errors you did not recognize on screen or on paper.

❑ Try to do “backwards outlining.” You should have constructed an outline when pulling together the essay. Sometime that outline can get lost in the writing process, however. Now that you have a draft, try to jot down an outline in the margins of the paper and see if it still makes sense.

❑ Make sure that you have completed a Works Cited page (using MLA) for the final draft AND have finalized all research, checking it also for spelling/grammar/cohesion.

*Adapted from Dr. Linda Pierce, Department of English

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