Essay grading marks
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This document provides abbreviations and shorthand terms for grading essay structure, content, and mechanics. It includes categories for issues with topics sentences, summary statements, thesis rephrasing, sentence structure, verb usage, mechanics, and capitalization. Abbreviations are provided to mark problems concisely such as "TS?" for topic sentence, "frag" for fragment, and "sp" for spelling.
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Essay grading marks
- 2. General No “you” No contractions Write out numbers < 100 TS? = no topic sentence topic sentence not clear or doesn’t cover the entire ¶ ‘topic sentence’ refers to a specific detail topic sentence doesn’t contain keyword SS? = no summary statement (or one of above) Rephrase thesis = You didn’t.
- 3. Sentence Structure Abbreviations frag = fragment R-O = run-on sent struct = problem with sentence structure s-v agree = problem with subject-verb agreement pron agree = pronouns or pronoun-referent don’t agree parallel = lacks parallelism verb tense = wrong tense of verb used verb shift = illogical shift in verb tense Rep = repetition wc = word choice awk = awkward word or phrasing
- 4. Mechanics sp = spelling error ∧, = insert comma ‘ ∨ = insert apostrophe ∨ = insert missing word (often little words: of, in, the) / B = should be lowercase B = should be capitalized = = delete