Here are some guidelines for planning your essay and looking over your own drafts. They are most appropriate for argumentative essays (the kind most courses require). Although the format for a case analysis is quite different from that of an essay, these questions also can help you assess your case analyses.
- Does your essay fall within the terms of the assignment? Is it on topic? Does it answer the question? Have you correctly INTERPRETED THE ASSIGNMENT?
- Does your essay have a clear and explicitly stated THESIS, that is, a clearly stated central idea that the rest of the essay develops and supports?
- Is there a broad enough base of information? Is there evidence in the essay that you have done appropriate and sufficient RESEARCH?
- Is your essay argumentative? Is there a body of ARGUMENT presented in a way that supports the thesis? Have you given good reasons for your thesis?
- Are your arguments supported by appropriate and sufficient EVIDENCE?
- Does your writing show a reasonable sense of paragraph structure? Is the topic of each paragraph clear and is that topic clearly related to proving the thesis?
- Is it clear how the evidence supports the argument? Are quotations introduced in a way that make their function in the argument clear? Do you comment on quotations in a way which shows their relevance to the thesis?
- Is the sentence level grammar correct? For example, do verbs agree with their subjects, are tense sequences correct, and do pronouns have antecedents?
- Is there coherence from sentence to sentence and a reasonable transition from paragraph to paragraph?
- Do you follow appropriate conventions of documentation, footnoting and bibliography?
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