Self Assessment Questions

Final Draft Checklist

All essays for LITR 201 should:

· Have, instead of a title page, a self assessment that answers the questions specified below

· Be in MLA manuscript format

· Contain correctly formatted MLA-style in-text citations in the form of both signal phrases and parenthetical citations

· Contain an MLA-style Works Cited list of all works cited in the essay

· Be saved as a .doc or .docx file (NO .wps files, please!) with a file name formatted in the following style: YourlastnameFirstinitial_Week#Essay.doc

Essays missing one or more of these elements will lose points.

Self Assessment Questions

Please answer all of the following questions in paragraph form; give as much detail as possible to help me understand how you went about writing the essay. This will allow me to better tailor my feedback to help you.

1. What topic did you decide to respond to and why?

2. If the topic allowed you to choose what works to write on, which work or works did you choose and why?

3. What do you feel are the strengths of your essay?

4. What parts of the essay do you feel are weaknesses or areas that could use more work?

5. Are there any particular parts of the essay on which you would like more feedback?

Remember that these questions should be answered in the form of a letter. See the Sample MLA Essay for an example of what the self assessment should look like.