<p>Revision Checklist: Mechanics Editor’s Name: ______</p><p>Check over each item below carefully, and addition to answering yes or no, make notes and physical corrections in the essay itself. Be as neat and clear with your corrections as you can. You will be evaluated for your thoroughness and detail.</p><p>___ Is the essay double-spaced?</p><p>___ Is the header information accurate to Essay Format Specifications, including the essay name and version?</p><p>___ Is the revision between 6-7 pages?</p><p>___ Does the essay use between 5-7 relevant sources?</p><p>___ Is the complete thesis emboldened?</p><p>___ Is source material paraphrased and summarized effectively or is there too much reliance on direct quotation?</p><p>___ Is there a signal phrase to introduce each paraphrase, summary or quotation, and a citation marker at the end of each paraphrase, summary or quotation?</p><p>___ Does each citation marker contain the first key word or two of the corresponding source that appears in the works cited list entry?</p><p>___ Are the works cited list sources alphabetized by the first key word in each entry?</p><p>___ Is the works cited list on a separate page and does have hanging indents for the second lines forward?</p><p>___ Do each of the works cited list entries follow the typical MLA pattern of author’s last name, first name, “article title,” publication title, date information, and if electronic, <URL address>?</p><p>___ Are quotes of four LINES (not sentences) or longer set off from the main text?</p><p>___ Are all set-off quotations introduced with a complete sentence signal-phrase at the end of the lead-in paragraph?</p><p>___ Is the essay’s spelling, grammar and punctuation perfect?</p>