Written Task #1

I have posted comments on the written tasks for my class in the "opdracht" in Magister. Together with the comments, I will be giving everyone a grade of "2", except for cases of severe plagiarism, if present. This grade is simply a placeholder so that you know that the comments are present.

When I see that, in your portfolio, in the folder you have created for English in the school year 2017-18, there is a subfolder called something like "Written Task #1" or "WT1", etc., and in that folder is at least a copy of the task you put in Magister (and the rationale and source list, if these were separate documents) AND you have copied my comments and put them in a separate Word document labeled as such in that folder, I will replace that "2" with your actual grade.

How your actual grade is determined is as follows:
A maximum of 2 points was awarded for your detailed proposal.
You get 1 point if you have handed in in hard copy the peer reviews of 3 students on time.
You get 1/2 point for handing in your written task on time in the Opdracht and another 1/2 point if you put the written task in your portfolio at the same time.
This is a total of 4 points.
You can get a maximum of 1 point for a good rationale, 1/2 a point for making an attempt to write a rationale.
You can get 2 points for the quality of English in your task, which includes whether it is the correct register and is appropriate for the text type, whether it is varied and whether it is correct.
You can get 3 points for how well your task demonstrates understanding of the topic, how well your task demonstrates understanding of the text type chosen, how appropriate the task is for its chosen purpose (as set forth in your rationale) and how well your task has demonstrated the learning outcome(s) you specified in your rationale. If your rationale does not specify your learning outcome, it is difficult to achieve full points here.

When your grade is given, you will see the breakdown in this order where the comments are given:
Detailed proposal-Peer-opdracht-rationale-language-content-portfolio.
Thus a 10 would look like: 2-1-0.5-1-2-3-0.5

If your portfolio is complete and correct, including the comments I have given on your task, before Monday evening, no further points will be deducted and you will earn full marks, except for one-point errors and plagiarism. Extreme plagiarism results in a grade of 1; one-point errors mean the final mark is reduced by 1 for each instance of an error.

Note that, except in extreme cases of plagiarism, in this first task, no penalty has been assessed for failure to properly cite sources, neither has citing sources in a non-standard manner been penalized (for the proper manner, refer to the handout you received on how to cite sources). Failure on subsequent tasks to list all sources, including sources of illustrations, will be severely penalized.

One-point errors, however, have been assessed. The list has been on the blog since the beginning of the year, I have made frequent reference to it, and you had the opportunity to use spelling checkers and to have 3 peers check your work; if it still contains these very basic errors, it is your own fault.

Don't forget to continue reading The Stone Gods. Planning is that you are finished reading it when the SE week is over. See you Monday!