If you want to read and hear why the instructor grades as
she does (and why it is in your interests), click here.
If you want to read and hear how this grading applies to
this class, click here.
If you don’t know how to do this,
here are the basic steps: click on Quizzes & Exams, click on your
submitted Practice Essay, and follow the prompts to choose to see what you
submitted (usually clicking on OK in the right corner). Then copy and paste
the question and your answer into a file. Ideally you need a word processor
that will let you: ·
Strike through (Strike through looks like ·
Underline (Underline looks like this.)
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Strike through (Strike through looks
like this.)
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Underline (Underline looks like this.)
Put your book and what you wrote side
by side so you can compare them easily. I have found touching the words on each
one very helpful in making myself observe carefully.
If you are left handed, you may want to reverse the pattern;
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With the textbook on the left
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What you wrote on the right.
The source turned to the exact page
you were using or should have been using for the content |
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The topic
displayed in Blackboard What you wrote
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This shows a page I showed by students in
face-to-face classes so they knew what to do with the copies of their Practice
Essays. Now your essay may have color highlights in green for an “A” or “B” or
“C” Paper and also have some things marked the “D” Paper and “F” Paper columns.
Underlining (by hand here but digitally in your rubric) tells you the specifics
for your paper. For the definitions of terms used (such as cherry-pick, click on Essay Topics and to the 2nd item—the
definitions.
If I underlined any of the words
circled in
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blue for a “D” Paper Criteria or an “F” Paper Criteria on
your rubric, then you compare side by side
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Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2013 |
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