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?