Essay Grading Criteria

What kind of genre of essay is essay 1? What is the purpose of the essay? (Write a short paragraph).

In my opinion, the genre of essay that essay 1 is an exam essay genre, or a persuasive essay. The reason being, this is really not a lab report and a creative genres because, it just state all the facts and try to convince people to do these things. The purpose of this essay is being to inform the reader about the safety of camping and demonstrate how to stay safe when camping.  

Based on our discussion of college writing, what should this essay be graded on? What categories would make sense? Why?

1.       Vocabulary – The more academic words a person use, show that that person is serious about the writing

2.       Structure – How is the general structure of the essay, does it have topic sentence, does it have concluding sentence for each paragraph,…

3.       Length – It depends on how long the teacher wants. If too short, minus some scores.

4.       Grammar – Are all the tenses correct, are they all properly used.

5.       Sources – What are all the sources, are they reliable, are they recent enough to be a reliable source?