Citations
Have you given credit to information from other sources?
Do you have appropriate parenthetical citations or footnotes?
Does every parenthetical citation or footnote have a complete, matching citation in your bibliography?
Bibliography/References
Are the citations in alphabetical order?
Are the citations in the correct style?
Are the citations properly formatted?
Does each citation in the bibliography have a matching parenthetical citation or footnote in the assignment?
Overall Paper Presentation
Are there any spelling or grammatical errors?
Is your paper formatted according to your instructor's guidelines? For example, a paper formatted in APA should have 1-inch margins around the entire paper.
- APA Sample Paper from the Purdue OWL
Have you remembered to quote everything taken directly from another source?
If you have borrowed and idea, did you put it in your own words and cite the source you borrowed from?
source: Information Literacy Instruction Discussion List