Correcting Written Work

We learn much about this student's language acquisition.

As a piece of writing, how would you grade it according to the following criteria? How great a role do each of these criteria play in your marking of a text?

Holistic Criteria

• Reader satisfaction

• Order of presentation of ideas

• Quality of argument

• Style appropriateness for the genre

• Met task requirement

Analytic Criteria

• Vocabulary items

• Word grammar

• Syntax

• Punctuation

There are some more grading criteria here:

• Political Science Writing Center, Washington

  • Finchpark: Classroom based assessment sheets

Read the news report below and answer these questions.

• 1. According to this news report, did anyone die?

  2. Were there any witnesses to the crime?

  3. Did he pay?

  4. Was the criminal arrested?

  5. What and where is the Moulin Rouge?

  6. Is the criminal a regular visitor to the Moulin Rouge?

  7. How does the journalist know that the criminal was black?

  8. Did the attack happen in the morning or evening?

  9. What time of year did these events take place?

  10. What is Cuckoo?

Rapid waitress

Yesterday 09.05. in Brno on the Slovakova Street

A unknown black man has attacked and then brutally raped a jung attractive defenceless waitress. Then he choched a witness to death. The dangerous attacker was a customer in the famous local night club MOULIN ROUGE. Before he paid, he suddenly attacked the suprised employee – junge student of laws, who worked there as a summer job. She was brutally raped and badly wounded, but she narrowly survived. When he finished, he noticed a cleaning women, who wittnessed everithing. He attacked her and choched her to death. Where was the Security service at the moment? How longe will be the rapist missing? Read CUCKOO - another details find you right here!

What is accuracy?

• • Objective language

  • Formatting

  • Lang accuracy

  • Cultural knowledged needed to understand.