Does the paper have a clearly ident ified story and piece of text that serves as the focus of this reader-response paper? There must be a sentence that will include t he selected text from the short story and its page number, as well as the author/title of the short story.
Are there two elements of a short story used in the reader-response paper?
Is there a discussion on the relevance for the reader of the text from the short story?
Is there MLA documentation provided?
Do the contents of the paper follow the provided format gtven in the assignment sheet/paper model?
6. Are there any grammatical fragmen ts, run-ons, parallelism, etc., punctuation, or spelling problems that interfere with reading and reflect poorly on the writer?