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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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.)