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.

Sample pages

Marking strategies
Special problems

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Details

84 pages - A4 format
First edition 1993
ISBN 0-9519844-1-1

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"Will it help me to assess and grade coursework?"
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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]