Final Draft

Revising for Completion

The process of revising your research paper should include assessments of your paper's comprehensiveness, consistency, coherence, and accuracy.

1. Does my paper include everything it should in order to persuasively demonstrate my thesis?

Here are some tests of comprehensiveness:

1. Have I addressed the major objections to my argument that I might anticipate from my reader(s)?

2. Have I addressed the major arguments about my topic that have been made by other writers?

3. Have I supported all the claims I make in my thesis?

4. Have I good reasons for not including all the elements from my initial outline of the paper?

2. Are my introductory thesis and concluding summary consistent?

3. Are the different parts of my paper coherent?

4. Are my claims, my evidence, my citations, my grammar, and my spelling accurate?

Last Updated: 4/11/2006