VII. Evaluation Checklist for Final Copy

Editing the Finished Paper

• Have you done what the assignment requires?
• Have you given enough evidence to support your ideas or conclusions?
• Have you proofread your paper and corrected any errors?

Quotations and Paraphrases

• Have you copied exactly, so quotations are as they appear in the source?
• Are you sure you have not plagiarized?
• Have you placed quotation marks around each quotation?
• Are the transitions into and away from quotations smooth?
• Have you placed in-text citations within your paper for all quotations?
• Have you used correct form for each in-text citation?
• Have you checked to make sure names and page numbers are correct?
• Have you given credit to sources that you paraphrased?

Works Cited or References

• Is the name of the first author in each listing reversed, last name first?
• Are the entries alphabetized by the authors' names or by the titles of the unsigned sources if required by the style you are using?
• Are the facts of publication (place, publisher, date) complete?
• Have you used the proper spacing, formatting, and punctuation?

Title Page

• Do you have the title, your name, date, and course number or other information required by your professor?

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MCC Guide to Writing Research Papers.
Developed by: M. DiSano, A. Penwarden, S. Callan.
Revised version August 2006. Copyright Monroe Community College.