Writing Evaluation Criteria
- Topic Suitability
- Entirely unsuitable. No pseudoscience involved.
- Mostly scientific issue. Claim not pseudoscientific.
- Mostly suitable. Evidence not completely clear.
- Good choice. Target is pseudoscientific.
- Organization
- What organization?
- Section (claim, analysis, conclusion) missing
- Some part(s) not clearly stated.
- All parts clearly defined.
- Research
- Required sources not used.
- Not all sources are reliable or >25% web sources.
- Good sources, but very few. Some good ones missed.
- Adequate reliable sources.
- Analysis
- No real analysis. Paper simply recites history or data.
- Doesn't really address the claim / contains logical fallacies and
weak-sense critical thinking.
- Analysis shallow or not well supported / weak conclusion.
- Good analysis and conclusion.
- Writing
- Paper essentially unreadable due to incoherence, errors or excess verbiage.
- Larger number (>20) of errors / structure problems. Hard to read.
- Small number (<20) of spelling, word choice or punctuation errors.
- Clearly written with few (<5) errors.
- Citations
- Source citations missing from the text / Bibliography absent.
- Very few source citations / many statements not sourced
- Some statements not sourced / some references not cited
- References clearly cited / references used
- Quote Content
- More than 60% block quotes; little original work
- More than 40% block quotes
- More than 20% block quotes
- Less than 20% block quotes
Writing consideration is given to ESL students.