Political life of the European Medieval Culture

1. The unified and coherent development of a properly limited subject

matter. (15%)

2. The research paper as a research project: (60%)

i. Demonstration of thesis

ii. Introduction: significance, relevancy, scope of theme

iii. Plan: modus operandi, procedure, division of problem, etc.

iv. Body: unity of parts, coherence and order of parts, linkages

v. Conclusion: recapitulation, relevancy to introduction, cogency

vi. Documentation: quality, quantity, use of quotations and summaries

3. Use of English: (15%)

i. paragraphing and sentence structure

ii. spelling and punctuation

iii. other grammatical usage (subject/verb agreement, possessives, etc.)

4. Mechanics: (10%)

i. General: numbers, capitals, italics, pagination, margins, spacing, writing, etc.

ii. Research: footnote and bibliographical form

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10

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5

5

5

15%

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5

10%

FINAL GRADE: (not necessarily a mathematical average of above grades)

RESEARCH PAPER CHECKLIST

Before you hand in your research paper, it would be advisable to check it very carefully against the following items. NOTE: Spell checkers do not correct all errors. They will not pick up homonyms. They will not tell you if you used “an” instead of “and”. Grammar checkers are still inefficient for all errors. YOU MUST READ YOUR PAPER OVER CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU HAND IT IN TO ME. Get a book on grammar if you are not completely comfortable with your ability to use commas, semi-colons, etc. or if you do not know the difference between the use of “which” and “that”.

1. Is my title page in the proper form?

2. Does my title refer to the issue and reflect the purpose of my paper?

3. Does my introduction have a clear and useful purpose?

4. Is my introduction interesting?

5. Is my plan a faithful outline of my paper?

6. Are my conclusions warranted by my evidence and reasoning?

7. Are there any uncommented or unacknowledged quotations or references?

8. Have I properly documented all quotations and references?

9. Do my quotations and references support the specific points I chose them for?

10. Does my conclusion have a clear purpose?

11. Does my conclusion adequately summarize and relate the chief arguments and conclusions of my paper?

12. Does my paper adequately develop the one principal idea set forth in my thesis sentence?

13. Have I developed this idea logically and coherently, as limited and ordered in my plan?

14. Are my paragraphs unified and clear, with one principal idea in each developed in an orderly way?

15. Have I made effective transitions between my paragraphs?

16. Is every one of my sentences complete?

17. Is every one of my sentences clear?

18. Do I have any fused (run-on) sentences?

19. Do I have any comma splices?

20. Have I used any slang when not appropriate?

21. Do I know the exact meaning of every word that I have used, and have I used every word correctly?

22. Have I used all the needed marks of punctuation?

23. Do I have any excess commas?

24. Do I have any misspelled words?

25. Have I used any homonyms(e.g., their, they're, there)?

26. Have I properly numbered my pages?

27. Have I observed proper margins on all pages?

28. Are my footnotes/endnotes consecutively numbered from beginning to end?

29. Do I have a superscript number in the text for every footnote/endnote?

30. Are my footnotes/endnotes in the correct form?

31. Is my bibliography in the correct form?

32. Do I have a bibliographical entry for every work cited in my footnotes/endnotes?

33. Are all entries in proper alphabetical order?

34. Have I proofread this entire paper carefully?