MAXIMUM

CRITERIA DESCRIPTION MARKS

AWARDED

COMPILATION & Overall consistency, discipline and effort in 4 marks

CONSISTENCY compiling all the assignments for the entire
semester.

Overall structure of writing assignments,

ORGANIZATION
paragraph organization, sentence arrangement, 4 marks
& NEATNESS
and neatness of handwriting and arrangement of
work.

Overall ability to synthesize information and

arguments from a number of sources and to state 4 marks
opinion and justifications.
LANGUAGE
& VOCABULARY
Overall language usage; words, phrases, figures of
speech, quotes etc (to enhance writing), as well as
tone of writing.

Overall ability to use grammatical structures well;

GRAMMAR &
including subject-verb agreement, tenses, use of
MECHANICS
transitions, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs etc. 4 marks
including spelling, capitalization and structuring of
writing tasks.

Overall expression of opinion, stand, point of view, 4 marks

CRITICAL
critical input into current issues; especially for the
THINKING
responses to the public speaking presentations
& OPINION
and argumentative writing practice.

 Do check and make sure that all the given 20 marks =

tasks (in-class activities; as well as post- 20%
TOTAL MARKS: class assignments), have been completed
and compiled accordingly, in order to merit
marks for this assessment.
ASSESSMENT DETAILS FOR PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENTS