26^th of November

Today’s topic was on marking essays; we were all given an essay, which we had to mark according to the marking scheme attached to the essay. The whole class had a general agreement of the grade and discussed why we had given mark, such as it was unstructured and there was a lot of informal language. Next, we got a second essay and had to do the exact same thing, however this essay was a lot better and so I gave it a better grade, as did the others in the class. Again, as before we discussed why this grade was given reasons were it was well-structured, good focus however, there were still errors such as justification of points made and things mentioned but not explained. I was surprised to hear that both essays were from the same person and the progress made by them is evident in the second essay.  It would be interesting to see how everyone in my year has progressed from first year until now and is it evident in our assignments’?