Final Essay
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Essay Assessment includes the following criteria:
The Student has:
Essay Content:
- Addressed the question and developed an argument/case on valid premises;
- demonstrated a clear understanding of key terms and concepts and applied them logically and appropriately;
- identified and justified any underlying assumptions and biases;
- Remained open to other perspectives or when challenging these perspectives used relevant and reliable evidence to support your own claims.
Introduction to the essay:
- Defined the scope of your topic and included a clear, arresting thesis statement
Body of essay:
- Ensured that each paragraph has one central idea;
- ensured your paragraphs support the essay’s main idea or relate to it in some other way;
- used appropriate evidence, illustrations and arguments to support each paragraph’s main ideas;
- made links between preceding and following paragraphs and from the paragraphs to the essay’s main idea;
- included a final statement that either sums up the central idea of each paragraph;
- Suggested implications, or provides one or more of the linkages mentioned in the previous point.
Conclusion to the essay:
- Summarised the main evidence in the essay;
- linked ideas and evidence back to the main ideas;
- provided rounding off, or evaluative comments, or pointed to implications or possible further developments;
- avoided introducing unrelated material