EELC1012 – Project 3 Opinion Paragraph Writing (10% of total grade)

● If you submit anything late, you will lose marks from the project grade for each 24
hours it is late.

● You should not use a translator. It is important to practice writing and speaking with your
own words. If you copy/paste (i.e. plagiarize) or use a translator for this project, your
grade for this assignment will be zero (0).

Name: Sky

Student number: SC120061

Topic: Do you prefer to online lessons or face to face lessons?

My stance: Face to face class is better than online classes.

Writing Assignment:
Write 2 paragraphs on the topic (100 to 120 words for each paragraph) on 2 points to
support your stance. Provide at least 2 reliable references as evidence for your ideas.

Paragraph 1’s Students’ queries are answered immediately by teachers or classmates

main point:
Reference(s) in
APA in-text (Kemp, N. & Grieve, R. 2014)
citations:

Paragraph 1:

One reason for face to face lessons better than online classes is that

( ____ words)

Paragraph 2’s
main point:
Reference(s) in
APA in-text
citations:
 Paragraph 2:

( ____ words)

References:
Kemp, N. & Grieve, R. (2014) Face-to-face or face-to-screen? Undergraduates' opinions and
test performance in classroom vs. online learning. Frontier in Psychology. Retrieved from
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01278/full

Writing assignment rubric:

Beginning Beginning Developing Accomplished Exemplary
not done not appropriate below meets exceeds
(0) (1) expectations (2) expectations (3) expectations (4)
Structure and Both the topic The topic Both the topic Both the topic Both the topic
coherence and concluding sentence or the and the and the sentence and the
 A clear topic sentences are concluding concluding concluding concluding
sentence missing, unclear sentence is sentences are sentences are sentence are
 Coherence of or misplaced. The missing, unclear given, but there given and well-written to
ideas within student showed or misplaced. The are mistakes showed the show the main
the no student showed that affect main idea of idea of each
paragraph understanding little identification of each paragraph paragraph
 A clear of the basic understanding the main idea of effectively. The effectively and
concluding structure of a of the basic one of the student show connected both
sentence paragraph. structure of a paragraphs. understanding paragraphs in a
paragraph. The student of the structure coherent
showed some of a paragraph manner. The
understanding and presented student show
of the basic the ideas in a good
structure of a coherent understanding
paragraph. manner. of the
importance of
well-structured
paragraph
writing.
Content It is not clear that Wrote 2 main Wrote 2 main Wrote 2 main Wrote 2
 Show 2 main there are 2 main points but they points. points clearly. exceptional
points to points discussed. are too similar Relevant Relevant points clearly.
support the No information/ or repetitive. information/ information/ More than one
stance in 2 examples are Information/ example is given example is clear piece of
body given, or example is given and written in a given and information/
paragraphs information or and written in a way to avoid written in a way examples or a
 Provide examples are way to avoid plagiarism, but to avoid mixture of both is
relevant sentences plagiarism, but the explanation plagiarism, with given with no risk
information/ copied from most are of some parts proper of plagiarism and
examples to other sources. irrelevant or not are not clear. explanation. are well-
support an able to prove explained to
idea that they are elaborate the 2
 Summarizing/ relevant to the main points
quoting main point of the effectively.
information or paragraph.
examples
 effectively to
avoid any risk
of plagiarism
Grammatical The sentences Some sentences Sentences are Sentences are Sentences are all
range and are all wrong or are incomplete or mostly complete all complete complete and
accuracy incomplete. they are phrases with some with few minor accurate. The
 Sentences They are just rather than mistakes. The mistakes. student showed
expressing inaccurate sentences. The students showed The student good
stance phrases being put student also has some showed understanding of
 Hedging together. limited understanding understanding using a variety
language to The student does understanding of using proper of using proper of languages,
express not know how to on expressing sentences to language to including to
stance express a stance stance or using express stance express a express stance or
and use hedging hedging with hedging stance with using hedging
language. language. language though hedging languages
there are some language used effectively.
mistakes. appropriately.

Lexical Vocabulary items Vocabulary items Vocabulary items Vocabulary Vocabulary items
resource are always are sometimes are seldom items are are varied and
repetitive, repetitive and repetitive with seldom accurate and
 Use of inaccurate and inaccurate some mistakes repetitive with included
correct noun misspelled which cause that does not little minor vocabulary
suffixes to which cannot be difficulty to affect mistakes. related to
form nouns understood. understand. understanding. The student research.
 Proper use The student The student has The student has show The student
of nouns showed no limited some understanding showed good
and verbs understanding understanding understanding of nouns, verbs, understanding
(with the of the correct use of some nouns, of nouns, verbs, and noun of nouns, verbs,
same form of nouns, verbs verbs, or noun and noun suffixes. and noun
or not) and noun suffixes. suffixes. suffixes.
suffixes.
APA No in-text In-text citations Both in-text Both in-text Both in-text
referencing citations or the or the reference citations the citations the citations the
reference list is list is missing, reference list reference list Reference list are
 In-text given. or both are given are given. There are given given accurately
citations but with plenty of are a number of properly with without any
 Reference mistakes that mistakes, but the very few typing mistakes. The
list showed the student showed mistakes of student show
student do not some punctuations/ good
understand APA understanding capital letters/ understanding of
referencing. of APA using italics of APA referencing
referencing. some text. The of different types
student show of documents and
understanding wrote the author
of APA name(s) correctly.
referencing.
TOTAL: /20 = 10%