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Essay 2: Argumentative Essay in APA -- Final Draft Checklist

______ APA formatting (title page, abstract, body, reference page)

______ author, year, page number in parenthetical citation after quoted lines of an article

______ a minimum of four quotes from sources

______ a minimum of four sources used in the paper and cited in the text (2 must come from the MDC

databases)

______ correctly formatted reference page

______ abstract is 150 to 200 words and lists key words at the end

______ thesis statement (can be more than one sentence) articulates the position the paper defends

______ clear topic sentences that indicate the topic of specific sections of the paper

______ transitions between ideas

______ the paper acknowledges counterarguments and refutes or rebuts them