Research-Based Literary Criticism Essay Revision Tips

Revising Be sure you have enough supporting content. This likely means adding content, which means additional research. The MINUMUM is three full pages, not one or two lines on the third page. Check your MLA format, esp. in-text citations. Use the Purdue OWL website.

Revising Be sure your quotes are properly embedded/ well blended. Remember, every quote needs a shirt and pants. Shirt = set up the quote so readers understand it/explain what is going on in the story at the time of the quote. Pants = explain how the quote helps prove your point.

Revising If you use a full sentence to introduce a quote, use a colon. Otherwise, your quote should have some sort of introduction explaining who said it.

Revising Instead of this: Do this: After he kills King Duncan, Macbeth already begins planning how he is going to get Duncan’s son Malcolm, heir to the throne, out of the way so that he can become king instead. "The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, / or in my way it lies.” Do this: After he kills King Duncan, Macbeth already begins planning how he is going to get Duncan’s son Malcolm, heir to the throne, out of the way so that he can become king instead: "The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, / or in my way it lies.” OR …can become king instead. Macbeth thinks to himself, “The Prince of …

Revising Your in-text citations should not look like this: “The witches operate on the basis of fate­ it is destined for Macbeth to become King. However, Macbeth takes matters into his own hands, and that disrupts fates system”(enotes).

Revising So this: Should look like this: “The witches operate on the basis of fate­ it is destined for Macbeth to become King. However, Macbeth takes matters into his own hands, and that disrupts fates system”(enotes). Should look like this: “The witches operate on the basis of fate­ it is destined for Macbeth to become King. However, Macbeth takes matters into his own hands, and that disrupts fates system”(“Why Does Macbeth Kill”). Works Cited “Why Does Macbeth Kill King Duncan?” Enotes Homework Help. Enotes. 18 Nov. 2008. Web. 19 April 2016.  Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

Revising This paper is worth 110 points. It is a BIG chunk of your grade for MP4. Do a good job! Remember, I am in G113 with computers most periods of most days.