teaching with writing

history grading

Essential grading criteria that apply to writing assignments in all or most post-secondary courses include attention to the assignment, appropriate address of audience, consistency of purpose, and an absence of grammatical, mechanical, or stylistic errors that obscure meaning. Additional criteria that are particularly relevant to writing in history include narrative coherence, a compelling thesis, factual accuracy, persuasive and smoothly integrated evidence, logical organization, and adequate development.

sample grading rubrics

• Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: a Bowdoin College resource that includes a rubric adressing thesis, structure, use of evidence, analysis, logic and argumentation, and mechanics.
  
  
• World History, Grading Guide: a general guideline for essays that pays explicit attention to the differences between grades.
  
  
• American History, Essay Exam Evaluation: a set of criteria that outlines the strengths and weakness of exam essays.
  

• United States History Paper-Writing Checklist: a set of attributes for students' self-assessment.

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