Name: _____________________________ Section: ___________ LANG 2030 (H) Part 1 Assessment criteria for the analytical report Task achievement Excellent Your report is interesting and insightful, with clearly focused, relevant and substantial content. Paraphrasing and referencing are skillfully managed. There are almost no citation errors. Very good Your report is at an appropriate level of detail and combines description and analysis very well. You support your assertions with evidence. Paraphrasing and the use of references are well-managed. Any errors are minor and involve the mechanics of citation. Good Your report is at an appropriate level of detail most of the time, and combines description and analysis. You support your assertions with evidence nearly all the time. Paraphrasing and the use of references are adequate, with occasional minor errors. Satisfactory Your report is at an appropriate level of detail most of the time, but is mainly descriptive. You usually support your assertions with evidence. You have added at least 3 quality references and paraphrasing and the use of references are usually adequate, with occasional errors. Organization Vocabulary Grammar Your introduction and conclusion are very helpful and your report is logical and coherent. You have appropriate sub-headings Paragraphing is skillfully managed and all aspects of cohesion are wholly satisfactory. Your introduction and conclusion are helpful and your report is logical and coherent. You have appropriate subheadings Your paragraphs are all of an appropriate length, with a topic sentence and controlling idea, which is well elaborated. You use a range of cohesive devices effectively. You have an introduction and a conclusion and your report is logical and coherent. You have appropriate sub-headings Your paragraphs are all of an appropriate length, with a topic sentence and controlling idea. You use cohesive devices with some flexibility. You have an introduction and a conclusion and your report is logical and coherent, with subheadings. You have written 1,000-1,500 words. Sometimes the way you connect ideas and integrate your references is clumsy. Almost all your paragraphs are all of an appropriate length, and have a focus. You use a wide range of vocabulary, including idiomatic and specialized words. You may make one or two errors in word form. You use a wide range of structures accurately. You may make one or two grammatical errors. Your style is appropriate for a formal academic report. You use a range of vocabulary with some less common words. You make occasional errors in wordchoice and word form. You use a range of structures, and your style is appropriate for a formal academic report nearly all of the time. Error-free, complex sentences are frequent in your writing. You may make occasional errors. You use a range of vocabulary. You make some errors in wordchoice and word form. You use a range of structures, and your style is appropriate for a formal academic report most of the time. You make some repeated errors. You use an adequate range of vocabulary, but often repeat the same words and phrases. You make frequent errors in wordchoice and word form but your writing is understandable. You use both simple and complex structures, but may often repeat the same structures. Your style may often not be appropriate for a formal academic report. You make frequent errors but your writing is understandable. Below satisfactory Any one of the following factors puts your report in this category: 1. The report is all description with no attempts at analysis. 2. Most of the time you do not give evidence to support your assertions. 3. Paraphrasing and the use of references are not adequate – you may have plagiarized and/or not given in-text references and/or not included a list of references. Any one of the following factors puts your report in this category: 1. The introduction and/or the conclusion may be missing and/or there are no subheadings. 2. The report is not logical or coherent. Ideas are not connected. 3. Most paragraphs do not have a clear focus. You use a limited range of vocabulary. You make frequent errors in word-choice and word form and at times your writing is not understandable. You use simple structures and a limited range of complex structures. You often repeat structures, and you may make many errors with complex structures. You make frequent errors and at times your writing is not understandable. Your style is not appropriate for a formal academic report. Poor Any two of the above factors puts the report in this category. Any two of the above factors puts the report in this category. You use a very limited range of common, high-frequency words and phrases. You make frequent errors in word-choice and word form and often your writing is not understandable. You try to use complex structures but you are only accurate when you use simple structures. You make frequent errors and often your writing is not understandable. Any three of the above factors puts the report in this category. Any three of the above factors puts the report in this category. You can only produce common, high-frequency words and your limited vocabulary and frequent errors make your report very difficult to understand. Only very simple structures are used. Errors are frequent and make this report very difficult to understand. Very poor COMMENTS: