Marking Essays: guidance notes for tutors

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<< OUR BOOKSHOP << ORDER THE BOOK Marking Essays guidance notes for tutors This book provides advice, guidance notes, and support materials for tutors who mark and grade essays. It is suitable for use in schools, colleges, and universities. All the common problems of assessment, grading, and offering written comments are clearly explained. Marking Essays features sample marked essays, practical advice from experienced tutors, grading schemes, and suggestions for using IT solutions. This book deals with all the most frequently discussed questions on assessing and responding to academic writing.
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Details 84 pages - A4 format First edition 1993 ISBN 0-9519844-1-1	Question "Will it help me to assess and grade coursework?" Answer in the FAQ
Full contents Introduction - Marking strategies - Comments on the script - How much comment? - Correcting mistakes - Advice as separate notes - Structure - The body of the argument - Grading and assessment - Grading systems - Making allowances - Special problems - Misunderstanding the question - Students' demands for explanations - Use of secondary sources - False authorship - Attention-seeking - Disabled students - Payments to tutors - Technical solutions - Presentation - Guidance notes - Using computers - Audio-cassettes - Sample marked essays - Index This book will help you to respond to students' written work. You will learn new techniques, and it will help you in assessment and grading for any subject.
Verdict "It's great. After eight years working full time in higher education institutions, nobody has taken the time to explain the grading systems as thoroughly as Marking Essays." [Jean Baird - Nottingham Trent University]
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