PLEASE I NEED HELP WITH A RESEARCH ESSAY. I ALREADY HAVE THE ARTICLES AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
· is in my own wording except where I have indicated with quotation marks and MLA citation.
· does not contain any first-person pronouns (I, me, my, mine, myself) or any second-person pronouns (you, your, yours, yourself) unless they are in a quotation from a source I am using.
· has a clear, debatable thesis statement at the end of my first (or second) paragraph.
· reminds the reader of my thesis statement throughout the entire document by using clear and thoughtful analysis to connect the ideas from the sources to my thesis statement.
· stays on topic throughout the essay without unnecessarily repeating information.
· introduces “naysayers” and then either refutes or qualifies their arguments in a way that convinces readers that my argument is sound.
· introduces each source by giving the author’s (or organization’s) full name (and credentials when available/appropriate), the full title of the article, and a one-to- two sentence summary of the main point of the entire article before I quote or paraphrase from it.
· encloses article titles in quotation marks and italicizes all book, magazine, journal, and newspaper titles.
· introduces every quotation and paraphrase with a signal phrase.
· explains the context of quotations so that readers understand the information even though they may not have read the source I am using.
· accurately re-presents the wording and punctuation borrowed from the sources and accurately encloses that borrowed language in quotation marks.
· follows the rules for block quotes if I have used quotations that take up more than four lines in my paper. No more than two block quotations are allowed in the final draft.
· follows every quotation or paraphrase with a parenthetical citation that gives the page number where the information was found (and the first word of the corresponding Works Cited page entry (last name or shortened article title) if it
does not appear in the signal phrase of that sentence).
· follows every quotation and paraphrase with some sort of analysis or commentary.
· follows all other directions on the assignment sheet (page length, etc.) is written in formal, academic English.
· is formatted according to MLA Style guidelines.
· has been proofread carefully.
· provides a Works Cited page
My Works Cited page:
· begins at the top of its own page, but has my name and the page number (continued from the last page of my paper) in the top right corner, a half-inch from the top.
· has the title Works Cited centered at the top (but not italicized, bolded, underlined, in quotation marks, or in a large font size).
· is double-spaced throughout, but does not have extra spaces between the title and the first entry or between the entries.
· has entries separated by the hanging indent, in which the first line of each entry is flush with the left margin, and all subsequent lines are indented half an inch.
· is alphabetized by the first letter of the first word in each entry.
· puts all article titles in quotation marks and italicizes titles of all books,magazines, journals, and newspapers.
· has separate entries for each source that indicate what type of source each is by including all of the necessary information for that type of source (author, title, publication, publisher, volume number, issue number, dates(s), database, url, etc.)
· documents every source that I quoted or paraphrased from in my paper (but not those that I found but did not end up using).
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