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Essay Guidelines

This document provides a checklist for students to use when proofreading essays before submitting a final draft. It outlines the areas that will be graded, including proper MLA format with double spacing, appropriate font size and margins, and a header. Introductions should include the title, author, and genre of the work, along with a 2 sentence summary and a clear thesis statement. Essays should be organized into a minimum of 5 paragraphs with transition sentences and include specific examples and quotations from the text to support statements. Common grammatical errors like fragments, run-ons, pronoun agreement issues, and incorrect usage of punctuation will result in lost points.

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Essay Guidelines

This document provides a checklist for students to use when proofreading essays before submitting a final draft. It outlines the areas that will be graded, including proper MLA format with double spacing, appropriate font size and margins, and a header. Introductions should include the title, author, and genre of the work, along with a 2 sentence summary and a clear thesis statement. Essays should be organized into a minimum of 5 paragraphs with transition sentences and include specific examples and quotations from the text to support statements. Common grammatical errors like fragments, run-ons, pronoun agreement issues, and incorrect usage of punctuation will result in lost points.

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Essay Essentials

Use the following checklist as a proofreading tool before handing in a final draft. Throughout the
year, I will be looking at the following areas when grading your essays.

Format
MLA style (link on blog site and on LMC site)includes:

 double-space your essay


 no more than 1” margins
 Times New Roman 12 pt. font
 heading in the UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER (includes name, date and period)
 an original title
 pager headers
 Works Cited page if using sources or referencing material

Introductions
Your introduction should include the following elements:

 T.A.G. (title of the piece of literature written about, author’s name and genre or type of
work):
Books: titles of books are underlined or in italics

Plays: titles of plays are underlined or in italics

Short Stories: titles of short stories are in quotation marks

Poems: titles of poems are in quotation marks

 a brief summary (min. 2 sentences) of the work you are writing about
 a thesis statement (a single sentence in your introduction that specifically tells the
reader exactly what your essay will be about, indicates the organization of your essay,
and is a point that you will prove or argue is true)

Organization/Transition Sentences
 minimum five paragraphs

 first sentence of each paragraph should contain a transition

Development
 specific , detailed examples from the work(s) read to support your statements

 literary present

 when appropriate, include quotations from the text that

1. are introduced

2. are cited (with page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence)

3. are well explained

Grammatical Errors
We will cover several common errors in class that, once discussed, you are expected not to
make them in your essays and will be deducted points for each time you make the mistake in
your paper. Errors include

 fragment  word choice

 run-on  spelling

 comma splice  trite phrases

 pronoun agreement  personal pronouns

 numbers

 colons and semicolons

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