Text Response Essay final Check List

Regarding the essay as a whole:

 Does your essay have an introduction, which identifies your overall contention (argument) and how you will respond to the topic?

 Does your essay have at least three body paragraphs?

 Does your essay have a conclusion, which offers a full and final answer to the topic question?

Does EACH body paragraph:

 Address each element of TEEL (Topic sentence, Explain, Evidence, Link)?

 Have a topic sentence that identifies that paragraph’s argument?

 Have at least one quote as evidence?

 Has the quote been blended/incorporated, so that it reads properly if you take out the quotation marks?

 Have your provided some analysis/interpretation/discussion of your evidence?

Have you proofread and ensured that:

 There are no spelling or grammatical errors

 The language is formal, and not conversational (DEFINITELY NO text talk!)

 Capitals are used correctly, including in character names

 The title of the book is italicised whenever it is used

 You have not used contradictions (e.g. make sure you write “is not”, not “isn’t”)

 You have not used the first person (“I think that…”) or the second person (“you see this when…”)

 Quotation marks are used appropriately and appear either side of every quote.