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5) Structural and grading requirements of your review Your essay must be typed. Put your name in the upper right-hand corner and in the upper left-hand corner the title of your essay. You will be graded on a scale of ten points: seven points for content, and I will take off up to three points for misspelled words, typos, improper English usage, and other grammar mistakes. Points lost on your essay will usually be due to not following directions or some error/s noted below. You do not and should not need to use outside books nor consult the internet
6. Organizing Criteria (to be exhibited in your review) You must have a thesis sentence at the beginning of the essay. Think of the five paragraph essay format, with an introductory thesis paragraph (with thesis statement), supporting paragraphs, and a brief concluding paragraph. (Remember: In an essay you are arguing a point, trying to prove a point, or elucidating a point. Your thesis statement states what the point is.) Make sure your sentences make sense. Clumsy phrases and incorrectly used words will cost you points. Keep to the same verb tense.
7. Stylistic Points (I will not mark off for style, but keep the following in mind) Avoid split infinitives. Avoid passives. Avoid wordiness; make your statements direct. Vary your sentence structure: a simple sentence, a compound sentence, a sentence with subordinate clauses, etc.
8. Common Errors to avoid Iliad or Iliad, not Iliad: underline or italicize titles of books and poems. Titles of articles are enclosed by quotation marks. it’s = it is its = possession their = possessive vs. there punctuation: “...store.” “...store,” “...store”; “...store”: (Single punctuation marks are placed within the quotations, while double punctuation marks are placed outside.) Avoid run-on sentences: He wanted to go home as soon as he finished, however he stayed behind. There should be a semi-colon before “however.” A complete sentence ends with a period or semi-colon, except when you string several very short sentences in a row: I came, I saw, I conquered. Avoid fragmentary sentences: Since he lived in the South for over ten years during the 1960s and experienced many facets of country living in those years. Drop “Since” and you have a complete sentence.
Use commas properly. End a subordinate clause beginning with such words (called subordinating conjunctions) as “when,” “since,” “although,” “as long as,” “while,” “as” with a comma. When he finished the assignment, he handed it in. “But” usually has a comma before it as in: I went home, but no one was there. Words or phrases in apposition have a comma before and after. Similarly, such words as “however” in the middle of a sentence has a comma before and after. Capitalize proper nouns and adjectives: Greek/Greeks, not greek or greeks. Do not capitalize the word ancient: ancient Greece. Do not use contractions in formal writing.