Submission Day Polishing – Dr. Eric Drown

Check all quoted and paraphrased passages from Gee and your other sources for:
- signal phrases and parenthetical page references- As Gee argues, “tiddlywinks was a favorite game of my grandpop” (17). Or: In an effort to explain why a football coach is a worthy subject for a historian, David Halberstam explains, “this sentence isn’t really a quote from Halberstam” (234).
Read your paper aloud with a partner. Check all sentences for:
- subject noun-predicate verb disagreement (singular-plural)
- fragments (often they will be missing a subject noun)
- Run on sentences (two independent clauses joined without punctuation) and Comma spliced sentences (two independent clauses joined with a comma)