General Grading Criteria

As a general rule you can expect to gain the following grades based on your particular usage of the relevant sources of information:

A: To achieve this superior grade in answering questions you must, demonstrate a cogent understanding of, synthesize, and properly articulate, all the relevant material from lectures, readings, video clips, discussions, any additional sources you have unearthed as a result of your individual research.

B: Work attaining this grade will incorporate all of the expectations of A grade assignments, apart from the additional sources you have unearthed as a result of your individual research.

C: Work attaining this grade will incorporate some but not all the relevant material from lectures, readings, video clips, and discussions, which you will be expected to synthesize, and properly articulate in answering questions.

D: Work attaining this grade will be devoid of references/citations to either the relevant material from lectures, readings, video clips, discussion, or any additional sources. In other words, if you wish to write papers based on purely personal observations/interpretations, this is the grade you will receive.

F: This grade is reserved for work not handed in on time, or at all.


EVIDENTLY THE ABILITY TO ARTICULATE, INTEGRATE, AND SYNTHESIZE VARIOUS SOURCES WITHIN YOUR WRITTEN WORK IS THE KEY TO SECURING A SUPERIOR GRADE.