Racial Inequality in United States Paper It is probably best to do this exercise after you complete the literature review writing discussion for week 9. T

Racial Inequality in United States Paper It is probably best to do this exercise after you complete the literature review writing discussion for week 9.

Take a look at the following questions and review your paper. Respond to each section. Your responses do not need to be very long, just enough to get a sense of how your draft is looking, what might be missing, and what might need to be added/improved upon in the final draft. This will help you edit the rough draft for the next peer review and the final draft of the paper.

Introduction
Take a look at your introduction
How have you established the importance of the broad topic or why the topic/themes are interesting?
Have you used statistics or history? Why or why not?
How do you let the reader know what to expect in the paper?
How do you establish the topic’s relationship to the themes in a thesis?
This should be one or two sentences that note the major themes

Literature Review
This is where you establish what previous work has said about your topic/themes
What do we know based on previous work? How does the work fit together to give us an understanding
Speak to the themes and use sources to back up your point
You want to weave the literature together to tell a story
Do you have a brief introduction to outline your sections and let the reader know what to expect?
Do you have clear transitions between thoughts (e.g., linking one idea, paragraph, or section to the next)?
Do you have some kind of conclusion to each theme section to let the reader know what the major takeaways are?
Have you focused on tying authors together based on the theme, rather than talking about each article one-by-one?
Did you establish your guiding questions toward the beginning of each section to give structure to what you aim to answer?

Consider:
After the exercises we did, do you see any areas where you can improve?
What do you think you have done well?
Do you feel like you have done a good job putting the research puzzle pieces together to give the reader a sense of what the themes look like overall?

Conclusion
How have you re-established the scope and importance of the topic?
Have you reiterated the major talking points highlighted in the paper?
Remember, you want to give the reader the major things to walk away knowing
If you needed to summarize the whole paper to someone very quickly, what would be the points that stand out?
Have you made any recommendations based on the evidence you have shown to the reader? (e.g., policy/legislation, more research to better understand the topic and/or themes, educational changes, cultural changes, etc.)