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How do you treat a person’s paper? -Must be respectful -Treat each person’s paper carefully -Use only pencil and make light marks -Be conscientious

Focus and Unity

To Kill a Mockingbird or Title and Title Underline To Kill a Mockingbird or Underline Italicize Italicize

Cohesion Review of your essay  Does your thesis address to appeals and state whether they are successful or not? Does each of your topic sentences have one appeal and adds whether it is successful or not?

clincher Review of your essay  Does your clincher restate the claim’s success or failure?

Focus Review of your essay  Who is convincing / appealing to the jury? ATTICUS. Atticus or the jury should be subject of every sentence (generic pronouns are okay ).

Grammar

Review of your essay  Spelling Tip: Read the paper backwards

Verb Tense Review of your essay  Don’t forget was, were, made or had How many is/are do you have in your paper?

Intro phrases Review of your essay  1. Look for Signal Phrases (For example, / For Instance, / First of all,) 2. Words that end in -ly (Secondly, / Obviously, Unfortunately,) 3. Look for prepositional phrases (With this in mind, During the rising action,)_

Style

Fancy Fanboys Review of your essay  How many? Is the punctuation varied?

Paralellism Review of your essay  How many? Listing // either…or // neither… nor // not only… but also

Diction Review of your essay  How many literary terms? How many vocabulary words?

Do’s and Don’ts Do’s Don’ts MLA Format Make it 4 paragraphs No contractions No You, I, Me, We, Us No Bold or funny fonts