Proofreading Checklist

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Proofreading Checklist
 Each sentence begins with a capital letter.
 Names of people and places have capital letters.
 The title is correctly capitalized.
 Titles of books, magazines, films, plays, and long poems (like Paradise Lost) are italicized.
 Titles of articles, chapter titles, short stories, and short poems are in quotation marks.
 Direct quotes begin and end with quotation marks.
 Parenthetical citations follow the format of Author’s last name page number). Ex: (Steinbeck 34).
 Quotes longer than 4 lines are in block quotes
(indented, no quotation marks, punctuation before parenthesis)
 There are no contractions (i.e. don’t, can’t, won’t, etc.)
 Verb tenses are correct.
 Check commonly confused words:
they’re/their/there
your/you’re
its/it’s
a/an
to/too/two
 To my knowledge, a misspelled words have been corrected.
 My paper has a clear thesis statement.
 The conclusion adequately restates the ideas from the thesis and leaves the reader with an
interesting closing thought.
 I checked that words are not repeated unnecessarily.
 My works cited page is correct.
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 3
person point of view (no personal references such as I, me, you, etc.)
 There are no run-ons, comma splices, or sentence fragments.
 Correct MLA format (heading, spacing, font, title, etc.)

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