Paper+criteria

Your papers will be critiqued according to these criteria:


 * Medium || Has the writer written a research paper
 * that joins a conversation (where there is a controversy), that listens to others who have been talking about the topic (sources), and then posits a unique idea(s) in an effort to extend the discussion?
 * Or, is the paper substantially a **report** (a "data-dump") of what others have said?
 * Or, is it an extended **opinion piece** that gives no support for the writer's ideas?
 * Or, is it merely **plagiarized**? (this item trumps everything else and results in an "F" in the course. ||
 * Opening & Introduction || * Does the opening hook the reader and introduce the writer and his/her purpose for writing the essay? ||
 * Use of research question & thesis || * Does the writer employ their research question that then is answered in a thesis and set forward in the paper? ||
 * Use of sources || * Does the writer introduce his/her sources, summarize, paraphrase, and/or quote them, and then provide a comment for each one that advances their thesis? ||
 * Paragraph construction || * How does the argument flow--claim, support, result? ||
 * Conclusion || * Does the conclusion work to conclude the paper? ||
 * Works Cited & In-text citations || * Does the Works Cited and In-text citations conform to the MLA format? ||
 * Sentence-level practice || * Has the writer edited the paper carefully for grammatical and punctuation errors? ||
 * Paper posting || * Has the writer used the Assignment Template and posted only one .rtf file containing both the rough draft (4.1) and the final draft (4.2)? ||