Honors Core Fall 2022

• degree of thoughtfulness, richness of information provided or strength of claims made;

• effective presentation, including thesis, detail or support, paragraph form, transitions, and coherence;

• essay format and such sentence-level elements as punctuation, spelling, and word choice; and

• evidence of effort and quality of changes made to preliminary drafts, especially in response to peer-critique.

Generally, an “A” paper should be strong in all four areas; a “B” paper is strong in at least three areas and not poor in any; a “C” paper should be adequate in at least three areas; a “D” paper is inadequate in two areas; and “F” paper is inadequate in three or more areas.

Note that the Short Essay does not have a full revision process built in; so the emphasis is really on the the first three domains, with content/organization being the most important