ENGL 1711

CompareorContrastRevisionInstruction.docx

Compare or Contrast Revision 3-pages

Revision Requirements: Part of your grade is based on demonstrated revision and edit of writing between the first draft for peer review and the revised essay being submitted for grading.

v Changing the whole topic and rewriting the entire paper does not constitute a revision. If you change your entire paper, you have to submit the draft of the new topic and the revision of it. Feedback can be sought in these ways:

o Peer review

o Instructor comments

o Tutor.com

o The writing center

o Self review

v Simply adding to the end of your unfinished draft is not demonstrating revision

v Simply editing and correcting the format alone is not revision work

v No outside sources should be used: You should not score over a six percent in the turnitin originality report.

Check your revision for these content and organization points :

§ Your introduction is engaging and provides a hook. It has a clearly stated thesis as the last sentence, and the purpose should be either to compare or contrast.

§ Your paper is three pages double spaced

§ Your paper is organized in a subject by subject or a point by point pattern and uses effective transitions

§ There are at least three separate points being highlighted about the two subjects

§ There are at least three body paragraphs that have topic and concluding statements

§ Your essay has a formal concluding paragraph

Editing/Usage and Format

· Eliminate all second person references in the body of the essay

· Check sentences for run ons and fragments

· Check for comma placement

· Spell out numbers up to one hundered

· Do not begin sentences with conjunctions (FANBOYS)

· Use sentence variety

· Times New Roman 12 point font double spaced

· Upper left hand information only on the first page

· Title centered

· One inch margins all the way around

· Tab for first sentence of each new paragraph

· Space one or two times after a period