The Costal Final Paper Test: Portfolio & Final Paper MUST BE SHARED & Properly labeled TO joseph.costal@stockton.edu by 11:59pm, Monday, December 12th.
Answer the following with the preface: Does your final paper:
1. ...have approx seven pages of body work (Not including formatting pages)? If not, how can you add length without adding fluff?
2. ...have proper formatting (12-point, double-spaced, one-inch margins, Hacker approved APA-style?)
3. ...have an interesting, original, and relevant title?
4. ...have an effective, divisive attention-grabbing introduction that provides necessary background
information and establishes the controversy surrounding the issue? Does it accomplish this through the use of personal anecdote? Is the introduction adequate in length (no more than 1 page)? 5. ...have a specific and explicit/implicit thesis statement that evinces the main issue and the writer’s position? Is it argumentative? Does it contain a subordinate clause to drive complexity?
6. ...have logical development? Does each paragraph flow into the next, using the thesis as a road map to "fulfill the reader's anticipation?"
7. ...have sufficient supporting evidence? Does the paper employ strong ethos such as facts, statistics, examples, and expert opinions? Is this support connected to the thesis in a meaningful way? In other words, is it relevant, accurate, and representative?
8. ...have credible sources? Are several of the sources also academic, scholarly and peer-reviewed? Is it free of questionable web sources such as www.beardedguysanswerimportantquestions.com?
9. ...have NO generalizations, overstatements or other forms of logical fallacies?
10. ...have a fair representations of source integration like direct quotations, paraphrases, and summaries? Are DQs appropriate in scope and length (not too long, not irrelevant)?
11. ...have in-text citations after every quotation, paraphrase, or summary? Are there citations after each body paragraph (or included in each?) Are the in-text citations in proper APA format?
12. ...also have attributions? Especially in areas where the credibility needs to be justified because it is not immediately apparent, or the credibility is strong and needs to be relayed narratively.
13. ...have appropriate language use for an academic setting? Has he or she eliminated any abbreviations, slang or other informal language?
14. ...have appropriate and consistent person? If he or she uses “you,” is he or she addressing the reader? Is he/she ADDICTED to “you?” Is only necessary 1st person used? No “I think,” “I believe,” and “I feel”?
16. ...have obvious grammatical or sentence construction errors like fragments, comma splices or run-ons?
17. ...have a proper APA title, page, abstract, works cited & running header?
18. ...have an effective conclusion in which the writer emphasizes the importance of the issue and by urging the reader to do something? Is the conclusion merely a summary of the writer’s main points? Is it adequate in length?
19. ...evince the features of a true argumentative-persuasive essay, or has he or she merely written an informative work?
20. ...have both sides of the issue represented in pursuit of the thesis?
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