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Technical Paper Grading Criteria

Grading criteria

1. Format: abstract, introduction, material properties, comparisons, applications, processing, testing, conclusions.
2. Do not include Table of Contents; not necessary for a paper that is 8 pages maximum.
3. Avoid the use of quotes; Too many quotes, "copy/paste", not student’s work.
4. Appropriate Technical content; the paper is not an infomercial with superficial content. The paper is not significantly beyond the scope of the course and obviously not the student's work.
5. Organization of paper; coherent sections, integrated paper; avoid chunks of text with no section headings;
6. Start early, so paper is not a rough draft done at the last minute.
7. Quality of research - use multiple relevant sources.
8. Figures and tables are included, relevant to topic, formatted properly (numbered and captioned).
9. Figures are discussed in text.
10. Good quality photos/images/tables are included and are not blurry.
11. References – proper format, consistent format, and cited throughout text; 5 minimum, not including course textbook.
12. Approved topic, submission of term paper.
13. Quality of analysis or summary; student appears to understand what is being explained.
    
14. Interesting or informative.
15. Conscientious effort is apparent in final result.
16. Focus of paper is on materials and engineering