Environment Research paper.

1. THESIS: have you proposed a focused, intellectually ambitious idea? Does this paper ask a significant, compelling question of your subject matter? Is your idea the central concern of this paper?

2. ARGUMENT: have you convinced your reader to believe your idea? Do you bring strong curiosity to your topic, employing logic and substantiating your ideas with research sources to make your idea as credible as it can be? Do you answer potential objections to your conclusions?

3. RESEARCH: are your sources appropriate and credible? Is your cited material used competently and carefully chosen, utilizing paraphrase and direct quotation? Have you been inventive in your sources, searching deeply and widely for meaningful research material?

4. MLA FORMATTING STYLE: did you do it “by the book”? is your in-text citation and works cited page formatting perfect?

5. WRITING: did you write with economy and precision? Grammatical accuracy? A sense of voice? Is your paper written with an appropriate sense of authority and formality?

6. ORGANIZATION: does this paper clearly indicate its relevance or importance in the first pages? is the order of ideas and information as effective as possible, and the credibility of your argument builds with each page? Do paragraphs contain just one key idea?