Introduction to humanities arts and social science

Excellent control

Good control

Getting there

Needs a lot of work

Not attempted

Comments

Field knowledge, research & referencing

Relevance, informativeness and accuracy of information

Inclusion and use of sufficient references

Correct in-text referencing

Reference list that conforms to the standard referencing style guide

Addresses the prompt directly

Structure and Organisation

Has a General Statement of Identification stage

General Statement of Identification has all the phases that:

· identify the phenomena being explained,

· provide some background info about it

· preview the points to be explained.

Has explanation sequences that unfold the information, clearly and logically, keeping to the same aspect of the topic

Has Topic Sentences that link to and match the Text Preview

Has Topic Sentences that set up the paragraphs well

Has Topic Sentences with the 3 elements of Lens, Focus of study and a causative language resource

Has a final Summary/Deduction stage which evaluates the significance or importance of the information covered in the Explanation

Academic Register features

Has expanded noun groups to describe and classify

Uses specialised, abstract and academic terms appropriately

Uses formal (rather than colloquial) terms

Uses cause and effect language resources appropriately

Flow: sequences ideas cohesively; ideas flow logically from one sentence to the next

Fluency, accuracy and proofreading: few grammatical, punctuation, & word choice errors

Excellent control

Good control

Getting there

Needs a lot of work

Not attempted

Comment

1. Staging & phasing

2. Correct diagram of explanation type

3. Text Preview and Topic Sentences

4. Clause structure of Topic Sentences

5. Organisation of information in one paragraph

6. Cause and effect language resources

7. Nominal group analysis