Evaluating Your Paper
Evaluating Your Paper
Most of us feel entitled to pass judgment on a piece of writing, but can we justify our assessments? The grid below helps you isolate and weigh the different elements in academic writing so that you make more objective, consistent judgments. You can use it to evaluate your own writing as well as that of your peers. Use the questions in each box to help you decide how successful the writing is in each of five areas: Development, Organization, Voice, Mechanics, and Responsiveness. The scoring scale is 1-5, with 5 being the highest score. Use the Comments box (below) to note why you gave the score you did. Ideally, you should use this grid as a way to think through the qualities of the paper and not as a means to grade the paper. It is more important to learn to see the strengths and weaknesses in a paper than it is to categorize it with a number or grade.
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I. Development (Ideas)
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II. Organization (Order)
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III. Voice (Language)
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IV. Mechanics (Conventions)
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V. Responsiveness (Relevance)
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