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- Comment on at least ONE STRENGTH, using specific detail.
- Choose to comment on at least FOUR of the five key topic areas.
- For EACH of the four key topic areas you’ve selected, provide at least ONE significant and detailed suggestion for improvement OR significant and detailed alternative suggestion (another way they mightapproach a particular area).
- Five Key Topic AreasMain Claim:
- Is the main claim arguable? (Would some disagree with it? Is it sufficiently clear and focused?)
Subclaims
- Do the subclaims fully support the main claim? Are all key aspects of the main claim addressed by the subclaims?
- Are each of the subclaims, clear and complete statements?
- Are each of the subclaims arguable, meaning they require evidence and reasoning to defend them?
- Do the subclaims logically support the main claim? (A test: Read only the main claim and subclaims and see if a complete and logical argument is represented.)
Introduction
- Does the introduction begin with an engaging opener?
- Does the introduction provide necessary context?
- Does the introduction logically lead to the main claim, providing necessary information so the reader can understand the main claim and why it’s important?
Essential Skills for Academic Essays: Embedding Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries
- Are the ideas of the sources portrayed accurately?
- Are accurate in-text citations used?
- Are signal phrases used for all quotations?
- Are all quotations explained?
- Do signal phrases flow grammatically with the rest of the sentence?
- Is unnecessary information left in quotations that should be edited out?
- Are quotations unnecessarily long?
Essential Skills for Academic Essays: Other Elements
- Are key authors introduced with appropriate and necessary information (without being too lengthy)?
- Are the first and last names of authors used the first time they are referenced in the essay and only their last names thereafter?
- Does the counterargument address a concern a reader is likely to have?
- Does the rebuttal respond logically and convincingly to this counterargument?
- Do you spot any logical fallacies that the author doesn’t address?
- Have all instances of “you” been eliminated from the essay?
- Are there areas where the meaning is unclear due to grammatical or mechanical errors?
- Are commas and periods placed inside of quotation marks when they are next to each other?
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