2. Editing Surface Issues
• Select a reader and read each paper aloud
• Allow time for notes and comments for each
paper
• Spend roughly three to five minutes on
constructive criticism after each reading
4. Editing Content
• Use the following questions as criteria: Does the first page
begin to compare the author’s research with that of other
scholars’ (i.e. academic, peer reviewed articles, books, or
studies)? How do you know the research is scholarly? Ask
them where they found their sources (i.e. library
catalog/super search, Google scholar or Wikipedia)? The only
valid sources will be from the library, the library catalog/super
search, our textbook, or possibly a university website (i.e. a
“.edu”). How do they use these secondary sources to analyze
their own primary research, the community they are
studying? How many secondary sources do they use? The
minimum for this assignment is three secondary sources from
the annotated bibliography. How are these sources being
cited (using in-text citation)? Are they cited correctly? Check
Fieldworking for MLA guidelines. Do they have a works cited
page? Is the works cited page correctly arranged?
