When students submit a draft, most professors would like that draft to reflect thought, careful writing, and editing. The Checklist is useful, too, for peer reviews. Ask students to exchange papers with a partner, and ask each reader to respond in writing to the points indicated on the checklist. Some professors ask students to include their reviewer s response when they hand in their final paper. This section will answer the surprising number of questions they have regarding when they must cite sources.
Students often get confused about having to cite sources across disciplines.
They tend to think that only certain courses and disciplines ask for documentation. They need to be reminded that whenever they draw upon secondary sources, they need to document the works they have used. When told that they have to cite secondary source material, many students will paste together a string of quotations. To address this problem, ask students to pay attention to pages 49-50, which discuss reasons for using quotations as opposed to paraphrases. This section will help them set up both blocked and in-text quotations, and it will give them several examples of introducing quotations with phrases that serve as transitions between their own writing and the start of quoted material.