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CLARITY

The organization of your paper is unclear.

Some sentences not well developed:

At times, your sentence construction is awkward.

Try to avoid sentence fragments (often your verbs are missing).

Some paragraphs not well developed:

Try to avoid having two or more key ideas in one paragraph.

Some of your paragraphs lack topic sentences.

Unless they're deliberate, avoid overly short or overly long paragraphs.

Your paper lacks transitions and/or subheadings.

Your paper is clear and easy to understand.

I think there are some areas that you should improve to clarify your ideas.

Your paper is unclear. You need improvement in many areas.

Comments on Clarity:

CONCISENESS:

Have you made your points in as few words as possible?

Try to avoid unnecessary redundancies.

Regarding conciseness of your paper, you have no problems.

Regarding conciseness of your paper, you should:

Comments on Conciseness

COMPLETENESS:

Your paper needs a title.

Your paper needs an introduction.

Your paper needs a conclusion.

Regarding completeness of your paper, you have no problem in this area. Your paper has a title, an introduction, and a conclusion.

Regarding completeness of your paper, you have problems in this area.

Comments on Completeness:

CORRECTNESS:

You have violated the rules for capitalization.

Rules of grammar violated:

You need to attend to possessives (e.g., it's is a contraction whereas its is a possessive).

You should attend to plurals.

Please attend to contractions (e.g., it's is a contraction whereas its is a possessive).

Watch for antecedent/pronoun agreement (e.g., singular noun calls for singular pronoun).

Try to avoid unjustified shifts in person/tense (note: 3rd person singular is usually preferred for academic writing).

Rules of numbers violated:

If a number is ten or less, write it out.

If a number begins a sentence, write it out.

Rules of punctuation violated:

Your paper shows incorrect use [or non-use] of commas.

You have some incorrect use [or non-use] of ellipses.

The paper has incorrect use [or non-use] of semicolons or colons.

Some punctuation is placed incorrectly (usually placed within quote marks).

Try to avoid run-on sentences (i.e., two independent clauses with no punctuation or connector).

Regarding the correctness of your paper, you did a good job.

Regarding the correctness of your paper, here is (are) my comment(s):

Comments on Correctness:

Paper needs careful proofreading:

Avoid omission of words

Avoid spelling errors (& typos)--use a spell checker, but then check the results yourself.

Avoid incorrect words (incorrect use of similar sounding words, verb tense, etc).