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RESEARCH PAPER CHECK LIST:

RESEARCH PAPER CHECK LIST:. by Don L. F. Nilsen. ENG 312 CARDS:. Your name (first name first) ENG 312 Current Semester and Year Local address & zip Permanent Address & zip Non-ASU e-mails Languages you’ve studied 1 st Six Years of Life: State or Country

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RESEARCH PAPER CHECK LIST:

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  1. RESEARCH PAPER CHECK LIST: by Don L. F. Nilsen 16

  2. ENG 312 CARDS: Your name (first name first) ENG 312 Current Semester and Year Local address & zip Permanent Address & zip Non-ASU e-mails Languages you’ve studied 1st Six Years of Life: State or Country Tentative Title of Research paper (see next slide) 16

  3. Possible Research Paper Topics 16

  4. DOCUMENTATION AND FORMAT: BI: Basic Information on first page: 1). Your Name 2). Instructor's Name 3). Course Identification 4). Semester and Year 5). Descriptive (not cutesy) Research-Paper Title 16

  5. Evaluation of Research Papers • Have you selected an appropriate topic (from the list of topics above)? Is your topic focused and unified? • Do you have at least three scholarly references in your Works Cited? • Did you read these references carefully and totally understand them? • Did you select significant and insightful parts of these references to quote and/or to paraphrase? • Did you cite the page numbers after all of your quotations and paraphrases? • Is your argument systematic and sustained? 16

  6. 7. Is there good paragraph development and overall development of your argument? 8. Is your paper well organized, and are the transitions smooth? What would a three-level outline of your paper look like? 9. Do you make significant generalizations? 10. Do you support these generalizations with significant and insightful details? 11. Are your sources well integrated into the body of your paper? NOTE: This is a research paper, so it should not be about what you think. It should be about what the experts think. 16

  7. Attribution and Documentation: OPENING & CLOSING PARAGRAPHS: Your opening paragraph is for foreshadowing. Your closing paragraph is for concluding. ALL OTHER PARAGRAPHS: All other paragraphs need to have attribution (names of authors from Works Cited) and documentation (specific page numbers) 16

  8. General requirements: FONT: 12 point MARGINS: one inch margins on top, bottom, left and right PAGE NUMBERS: Each page should have a page number. In your Works Cited, each article in a journal, anthology, etc. should have inclusive page numbers. QUOTATION MARKS: Everything quoted that’s not in block form must be surrounded by quotation marks. If not this is plagiarism and a grade of E will be awarded. Also put quotation marks around minor titles (like articles or poems) UNDERLINING: Underline major titles (like books). 16

  9. MLA Documentation: Your paper and Works cited should be in MLA Documentation: www.mlahandbook.org In-text citation should be “…” (234). Works Cited should be like the next slide. The entries in Works Cited should be alphabetized by first authors last name, and should be in hanging indentation (Control T in Microsoft Word) If a quotation is more than five lines in length, it should be indented ten spaces from the left. Do not use quotation marks with long quotes. Make sure that every author mentioned in your text can be found alphabetically in your Works Cited. 16

  10. Works Cited: Boyle, Anthony T. “The Epistemological Evolution of Renaissance Utopian Literature.” Diss. New York U, 1983. Clark, Herbert H., and Thomas H. Carlson. “Etcetera.” Language 58.4 (1982): 332-373. Clark, Kenneth. What is a Masterpiece? London, England: Thames, 1979. Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Jessie Coulson. New York, NY: Norton, 1964. Kakutani, Michiko. "`Now and Then': A Memoirist Who Disregards the Details." The New York Times On the Web. 22 February 1998. <http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/22/daily/keller-book-review.html> (24 February 1998). O’Connor, Flannery. “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” The Realm of Fiction. Ed. James B. Hall. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977, 479-488. (Eschholz, Rosa & Clark [2009]: 617-622) 16

  11. Development: If you’re writing about an author, write about the style, giving salient and insightful examples. Don’t give biographical information that doesn’t relate to the writing style. Don’t be superficial. If you use good sources, then you can make insightful comments. Don’t rely on your own personal experiences, and don’t ramble. Have good resources, read them carefully, and refer to them in your paper. If your paper needs to be well organized, but it also needs to make significant generalizations supported by insightful details. There should also be smooth transitions. 16

  12. Sentence Grammar: Check on the grammar of your sentences making sure that subjects agree with verbs and pronouns agree with specific (not vague) antecedents. Get rid of long and awkward sentences. Get rid of fragments and comma splices. If you use a semicolon, make sure that there is a sentence on both sides of the semicolon. Make sure that all of your sentences have a subject and a finite verb (not an infinitive, a gerund, a present participle, or a past participle) 16

  13. Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Modification The relative clause in the following sentence is a restrictive modifier: John gave As to the students who took the test. (NOTE: Only the students who took the test got As. The others did not) The relative clause in the following sentences is a non-restrictive modifier: John gave As to the students, who took the test. John gave As to the students—who took the test. John gave As to the students (who took the test). NOTE: All of the students got As, and all of the students also took the test. A non-restrictive modifier is the same as a parenthetical expression) The material following a colon (like that following a dash) is parenthetical: We brought the following items: comb, mirror, toothbrush, and fingernail clippers. 16

  14. Punctuation: If the person you are quoting made a grammatical or logical error, you should quote the original and then write [sic] (Latin for “thus”). If you want leave out some of the material being quoted use three deletion periods: … If you want to put something of your own into a quote, surround your own words with square brackerts [like this]. Distinguish between a dash (--) and a hyphen (-) There are two ways to punctuate a series (depending on the style manual): A, B, and C A, B and C 16

  15. Word Grammar: Make sure that your pronouns have antecedants. Check your spelling and grammar. Make sure that your words go together. If they don’t, then this is a predication error. 16

  16. Proofreading and Tone: USE VS. MENTION: Your tone should be academic and formal; however it is appropriate to quote material that is colloquial. This material should be surrounded by quotation marks, because you are not using these words, you are referring to them. Avoid colloquialisms like “I,” “you,” and the generic “they.” Avoid rhetorical questions and imperatives. Don’t insert your own voice. STET: This means that I made a comment, but then changed my mind after receiving more evidence from your paper. 16

  17. !The best papers will contain A good opening paragraph with good foreshadowing and a good closing paragraph Good argumentation Good overall organization and transitions Good paragraph development and good overall development Good comparisons and contrasts 16

  18. !The best papers will also Make significant generalizations and support them with appropriate details Make insightful points Have a good review of the literature Develop interesting ironies and paradoxes 16

  19. !And most important of all, the best papers will support significant generalizations with insightful and effective details. Eschholz, Rosa & Clark [2009]: 607-617) 16

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  21. !!REFERENCE AND PARODY REFERENCE 16

  22. !!!Some Important Web Links MLA STYLE SHEET: www.mlahandbook.org The The Impotence of Proofreading (Taylor Mali): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ&feature=search Victor Borge Phonetic Punctuation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw&feature=search 16

  23. References: Eschholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. Language Awareness. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009. Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition. New York, NY: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003. http://www.mla.org/store/CID24/PID159 Parody, A. Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It. New York, NY: Metro Books, 2004. Truss, Lynne. Easts, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. New York, NY: Gotham Books, 2003 (paperback 2006). 16

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