Informative Essay Checklist
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Does your partner have an attention-grabbing hook strategy?
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Does your partner have a clear and concise thesis that responds to the prompt?
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Did your partner introduce the text title and author in the introduction?
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Does the body paragraph have a clear topic sentence?
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Does the body paragraph have two strong pieces of text evidence?
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Does your partner have a quote set-up for each quote that introduces context?
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Is your partner\'s text evidence quoted and cited correctly?
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Does your partner have thorough and insightful analysis that follows each quote? (NOT paraphrased text evidence)
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Does the body paragraph end with a concluding sentence?
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Is the body paragraph 8+ sentences?
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Does the conclusion restate your thesis?
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Does the conclusion tie back to your hook and/or leave the reader with something to think about?
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Does the essay contain 3 vocabulary words?
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Does the essay contain transition words?
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Does the essay use formal language?
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Is the essay written in 3rd person objective point of view?
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Did you make a minimum of 5 comments to help your partner improve his/her writing?