Evaluation Sheet
Précis and Topical Response Paper Packet
SIS 202 Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World
Student Name______Section______
Packet Submission Date______
Packages are not acceptable without a cover sheet. Packages must be stapled together.
Students are completely responsible for keeping track of all parts of the assignment for each book and submitting it as a package.
Provide work in this order: Book Survey, Book Précis, Essay draft, Peer Review, and Final Topical Response Essay.
The discrete parts of the packet are evaluated on a scale of +//-- . The grade will be assigned to the packet as a whole.
Any package submitted with a missing piece of the assignment will be evaluated as if that part of the assignment was not done. Any missing piece will therefore drop the total grade by 1.0 pts.
Students are responsible for submitting the peer review to their work in their own packet. Any student who received a review, but who can not locate it for submission, will have their own grade drop by 0.5 pts. The person who provided the review will not lose any points.
PartI. Book Survey:
Part II. Book Précis:
Evaluation Criteria:
- Is the writing sufficiently clear that the student’s ideas are easy to understand?
- Does the student provide evidence to support general propositions?
- How well did the student support their ideas by reference to the text.
- Do the references evidence efforts to synthesize evidence and perspectives from different chapters?
- Does the student go beyond synthetic statements to the examination of analytic perspectives?
Part III. Response Draft & Peer Review Process:
Evaluation Criteria:
- Did the student complete a draft response essay in time for class meeting?
- Student provided a peer review to ______(classmate’s name).
- How thoughtful and helpful was the student’s review of her or his peer’s work?
- Did the comments respond to the concerns of the writer in a way that would help the writer clarify or extend her or his arguments?
- Did the student provide concrete suggestions or supporting or contradictory evidence?
- Did the student provide concrete suggestions for organization or presentation aimed to help the writer clarify her or his argument?
Part IV. Topical Response Papers:
Evaluation Criteria 1/ Essay Structure and Composition
- Is the writing sufficiently clear that the student’s ideas are easy to understand?
- Is there a clearly stated thesis or proposition?
- Does the student provide evidence to support general propositions?
- Is there a clearly stated conclusion which is actually supported by thesis statement and evidence?
- Are the origins of information and ideas properly documented and cited using a recognized scholarly format?
Evaluation Criteria 2/ Intellectual and Analytic Aspects
- How much does the student’s analysis obviously extend from the central concepts of this section of the course?
- How well did the student support their ideas by reference to the readings?
(Did the student use the most useful references available?)
- Do the references evidence efforts to present, summarize, or describe evidence and perspectives from several different articles/ books/ book chapters?
- How much does the student’s essay evidence efforts to synthesize evidence and perspectives from several different articles/ books/ book chaptersread in the course?
- How much does the student’s essay go beyond synthetic statements to analysis of perspectives?
- How well does the student integrate their own concerns (as evidenced from the précis ‘outstanding questions’ or class discussion) with the issues examined in the course?
Additional Comments:
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