Final Checklist for Term Paper ____ made all changes in the drafts and attached drafts to the paper? ____ included a bibliography with approximately 14 sources? ____ read allow the paper to hear any mistakes? ____ ran spell checker? ____ avoided contractions and abbreviations? ____ avoided action verbs was inanimate objects: “This articles tells us little.” ____ used shortened references for 2nds, 3rd appearances of a source? ____ used ibid.? ____ inserted page numbers? ____ used: “however;” in the middle of a sentence? ____ numbered and titled all examples and illustrations? ____ referred to all examples and illustrations in your text? ____ inserted footnotes outside periods and commas? ____ used italics for complete works and quotes for parts of works? ____ used italics for foreign expressions not in standard use? ____ fixed hanging “this” by adding a noun? ____ tightened up (combined sentences) and fleshed out (dates, examples)? ____ provided dates wherever possible? ____ kept “I” (first person) to a minimum? ____ formatted long quotations (3 or more lines) as block quotes: single spaced, indented from both right and left margins: | 
