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About this Daily Classroom Special:
A Survival Guide for Teaching Students How to Write Research
Papers was written by former Teachers Network
web mentor, Lisa Kihn, a math and language arts teacher at Nevin Platt
Middle School in Boulder, Colorado.
A Survival Guide for Teaching Students How to Write Research Papers
RESEARCH PAPER SELF-EVALUATION
Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 5 for each area. Describe your justification
for each rating on the lines that follow.
_____ Introduction
Does your introduction catch the reader’s attention? What kind of introduction
did you use? Did you use images? Give examples.
_____ Conclusion
Does your conclusion include a final image for the reader? Explain
_____ Title Page
How did you decide on a title for your piece? Is the title page creative
and attractive?
_____ Note Taking
Did you have at least 15 – 20 notecards per category? Explain how using
notecards was helpful to you.
_____ Bibliography
Is the bibliography in alphabetical order? Are the page numbers included?
Have you followed all the punctuation rules?
_____ References
Have you given credit to all your sources? Did you put quotation marks
around direct quotes? How does using quotes add to your paper?
_____ Resources
Have you used at least 1 primary and 5 secondary resources? Explain
how you used your resources.
_____ Deadlines
Did you meet each deadline throughout the project? Explain.
_____ Flow
Does each category include enough information? Is each category placed
in your paper so that the information flows well from one thought to
another? Explain.
_____ Topic Sentences
Does each paragraph have a strong topic sentence? Give examples and
explain how topic sentences help the reader.
_____ Supporting Sentences
Do all sentences within a paragraph support the topic sentence? Give
examples and explain.
Comments: Reflect on your effort. What went well? What was difficult?
What would you do differently? What other instruction would have been
helpful as you completed this assignment?
To the Project Overview
To the Lesson Plans
To the Topic Commitment Forms
To the Speech Preparation Sheet
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