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Mediating/Negotiating Essay Checklist

Mediating Essay Checklist

• 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?

• 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?