1. Let’s Check Your Documentation!

2. Works Cited New page? Double spaced? Title Centered Capitalization
Header / #

3. Works Cited
On your Works Cited
Hanging indent
On EVERY source

4. Works Cited On your Works Cited Alphabetical by 1st letter of citation
(ignore the/a/an)?

5. Works Cited Are there 4 sources? Are all from a database?
Check to verify that no more than 2 are from any one database.
Check date of publication –
Is each citation correctly formatted?

6. The MATCHING Game

7. Works Cited / In-Text Citations
Look at your rough draft
Separate the Works Cited page
Look at each SOURCE
On the Works Cited > In the LEFT margin
NUMBER each source 1-4

8. Works Cited / In-Text Citations
On your rough draft, write # wherever that source is referenced
Next, at end of each citation of Works Cited, note PAGE # on which the source was referenced

9. Works Cited / In-Text Citations
Is EVERY source on the Works Cited page used in the essay?
OPTIONS:
Delete the source citation
Add evidence from the source to your essay

10. Works Cited / In-Text Citations
In the essay, find anywhere that you have used evidence.
IS IT CITED?
In-text citation
Author attribution
Parenthetical citation
Verify that the citation and the Works Cited MATCH.
Verify that they EXACTLY MATCH!

11. Citations Italicized publication titles?
Journal articles from database

12. Works Cited / In-Text Citations
Is every single citation’s source listed on the Works Cited?
OPTIONS:
Add the source citation
Delete the evidence from your essay

13. Works Cited / In-Text Citations
FINAL CHECKLIST
Does each source have an entry on the works cited page?
Are all direct quotes in quotation marks?
Do all paraphrases and summaries clearly indicate that they come from other sources,
either in the sentence or parenthetical citation?
Does each in-text reference include a parenthetical citation that includes the author’s last name and the page number from which the information was taken?
If a quotation is 4 lines or more, is it block-quoted? (i.e. double-spaced, indented 1 inch from the left margin)
Have you clearly indicated where you found all information you did not previously know?

14. Check MLA: Running header? Heading? Title center?
Right side – Lastname #
Heading?
Title center?
No bold
No underline
Capitalized – every word except the/of/a/an
Margins – 1 inch on all 4 sides
Double spacing throughout

15. HOOK Does the essay immediately grab your attention?
Does it make you want to read the rest of the essay?
Make a suggestion for improving the HOOK

16. [thesis] What is the thesis? Write “thesis” in the margin and use [ ]
Suggestions to improve the thesis?

17. Background
Does the background paragraph provide you with enough information to understand the topic and its history?
Improvements?

18. Conclusion Does the ending link back to the
hook or the intro paragraph?