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The following are unaltered student essays from late in the semester that the directors in the English Department have decided are examples of A, B, and C papers. All of them deserve to pass. That is, they all deal with two or more sources in an attempt to come to some reasonably complex understanding of a question with which they engage the reader. Each essay receives comments from two or three professors who point out the strengths and weaknesses of each. Instructors have somewhat different criteria for evaluating writing, but they are broadly similar. Here are two different rubrics: English
Department Rubric for College English |