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Informative Essay Checklist

• Do you have an attention-grabbing hook strategy?

• Do you have a clear and concise thesis that responds to the prompt?

• Did you introduce the text title and author in your introduction?

• Does your body paragraph have a clear topic sentence?

• Does your body paragraph have two strong pieces of text evidence?

• Do you have a quote set-up for each quote that introduces context?

• Is your text evidence quoted and cited correctly?

• Do you have thorough and insightful analysis that follows each quote? (NOT paraphrased text evidence)

• Does your body paragraph end with a concluding sentence?

• Is your body paragraph 8+ sentences?

• Does your conclusion restate your thesis?

• Does your conclusion tie back to your hook and/or leave the reader with something to think about?

• Does your essay contain 3 vocabulary words?

• Does your essay contain transition words?

• Does your essay use formal language?

• Is your essay written in 3rd person objective point of view?

• Did you use a spelling and grammar checker like grammarly or paperrater?

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