Have you described clearly the positions adopted by authors in your Aims chapter?
Does your essay show that you understand the positions?
Have you written from an unbiased position as mediator?
Have you moved "beyond the stated positions and the facts of the dispute to expose the underlying interests, values, and beliefs of those in opposition"?
Have you shown what interests the authors have in common?
Have you increased each side's understanding of the other?
Have you explained your solution to the dispute, especially how your position is based on interests and values that will be acceptable to both sides?
Have you used logic and other appeals effectively?
Does your essay include evidence from the Aims essays?
Does your essay include evidence from other sources?
Have you documented your sources clearly?
Have you created a clear Works Cited page?
Step back and look again at focus, development, and coherence. Have you produced a well-written essay?
Negotiating Essay Checklist
Have you described clearly the positions adopted by members of your group?
Does your essay show that you understand the positions?
Does your essay make clear that you understand the differences in interests, background, and values among group members?
Have you made clear the bias from which you are working?
Have you found a negotiating position that accommodates at least some of the interests of all sides?
Have you explained your resolution of the conflict?
Have you used logic and other appeals effectively?
Does your essay include evidence from the Aims essays?
Does your essay include evidence from other sources?
Have you documented your sources clearly?
Have you created a clear Works Cited page?
Step back and look again at focus, development, and coherence. Have you produced a well-written essay?