Chiara Lombardini-Riipinen
Essay’s evaluation criteria
Spring 2006
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Essay’s evaluation form
Student’s name:
Essay’s title:
Lecturer evaluating the essay:
Grade:
Grading for the essay : 25 points (1); 30 points (2); 37 points (3); 44 points (4); 50 points
(5)
Especially good in the essay
Areas to develop
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Chiara Lombardini-Riipinen
Essay’s evaluation criteria
Spring 2006
Evaluation criteria
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Insufficient level
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The essay will get an insufficient mark if:
The essay was handed in later than Tuesday 15 o’clock
Plagiarism is detected.
The essay is unrelated with the assigned readings
The essay does not comply with the guidelines regarding length
An insufficient mark will also be given if the following apply:
o In the essay is not possible to distinguish an introduction, main body and
conclusions
o The essay contains several serious content-related errors.
o The essay contains so many grammatical and syntactic errors to make it
almost impossible to understand.
Please note, if plagiarism is detected, the presentation must be resubmitted. If in
the resubmitted version plagiarism is again detected (even minimal), then the
student gets a failing grade. A second resubmission is not allowed.
Passing grade 1
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The essay shows that the student has read the assigned reading(s).
In the essay is possible to recognize introduction, main body and conclusions
However:
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The student has not been very successful in identifying the main ideas of the
reviewed article and the essay lacks logical progression of ideas
The essay shows a poor understanding of the ideas presented in the article and
contains some content-related errors.
The essay lacks the student own reflection on the article.
There are several mistakes in the use of in-text citations and the reference list
contains some errors.
The essay contains several spelling, grammatical and syntactic errors.
The essay conforms to the guidelines regarding length
Grade 2
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The essay shows that the student has read the assigned readings, has identified the
article’s main ideas and has a basic understanding of these ideas.
The essay is clearly structured with an introduction, main body and conclusions.
The reference list contains almost no errors.
The essay conforms to the guidelines regarding length
(continues)
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Chiara Lombardini-Riipinen
Essay’s evaluation criteria
Spring 2006
(Grade 2 continues)
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However
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The organization of the arguments is uneven, sometimes lacking logical
progression.
The essay lacks the student own reflection on the article
There are some occasional content-related errors.
There are some mistakes in the use of in-text citations.
The reference list at the end of the essay contains some errors.
There are some spelling and grammatical errors.
Grade 3
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The essay shows that the student has read the assigned article(s) and understands
the article’s main ideas, which are clearly identified and presented following a
logical progression.
The essay is clearly structured with an introduction, main body and conclusions.
The essay contains some occasional reflections by the student on the assigned
readings
There are no content-related errors.
There are very few spelling and grammatical errors.
In-text citations are appropriately used and the reference list contains no errors.
The essay conforms to the guidelines regarding length
Grade 4
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The essay shows that the student has carefully read the assigned article(s) and has
a good understanding the article’s main ideas, which are clearly identified
presented following a logical progression.
The essay is clearly structured with an introduction, main body and conclusions.
The essay shows the student critical thinking. The essay for instance, contains
possible objections to the thesis presented in the article and/or presents interesting
questions related to the readings.
There are no content-related errors.
The student uses in-text citations appropriately and the reference list contains no
errors.
The writing style is clear
The essay conforms to the guidelines regarding length .
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Chiara Lombardini-Riipinen
Essay’s evaluation criteria
Spring 2006
Grade 5
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The essay shows that the student has read the assigned readings and has an
excellent understanding of the article’s main ideas, which are coherently and
effectively presented.
The essay is clearly structured with an introduction, main body and conclusions.
The introduction provides a good guide to the reader as to why the presented topic
is relevant and as to how it will be dealt with in the essay. The conclusions
present novel and stimulating ideas.
The essay shows the student critical thinking. For instance, it contains possible
objections to the main theses presented in the article and/or presents interesting
questions related to the article.
There are no content-related errors.
In-text citations are used appropriately and the reference list is errorless.
The writing style is clear and adequate for scientific writing .
The essay conforms to the guidelines regarding length
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