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Marking Essays (.pdf)

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Marking Essays Download this eBook now! It offers advice, guidance notes, and support materials for tutors who mark and grade student essays. Suitable for use in schools, colleges, and universities. All the common issues of assessment, grading, writing support, and offering written comments for improvement are clearly explained. Features sample marked essays, plus practical advice from experienced tutors. Common grading schemes are explained. and suggestions for using IT solutions. The PDF format can be used on laptops, mobiles, and workstations. It deals with all the most important questions of assessing and responding to academic writing. You can add your own notes and live hyperlinks to personalise your eBook and make it even more interactive.

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Author
Dr Roy Johnson is the author of best-selling writing and study guides – Studying Fiction, Making the Grade, Improve your Writing Skills, Writing Essays 3.0, and several others. He was originally an industrial designer, then went on to lecture on literary studies at Manchester University and the Open University. He publishes a monthly newsletter on writing, culture, and technology, and is the director of Mantex Information Design.

Sample pages Marking strategies – Special problems

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

Details
Price – £1.95 – 84 pages – PDF format – 1993 – ISBN 0951984411

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