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MODULE 9 MODEL ANSWER
Evaluation Approach
To learn the most from your experience of writing this essay, with an eye towards improving
both your essay-writing skills as well as your knowledge of the relevant substantive law, please
compare your essay to the model answer provided below using the following approach:
(1) Score: Find the score the essay received in the grading rubric (below), and note the
description of why an essay would receive that score. The score tells you in general terms how
the way the essay was written correlates to the expectations for the assignment (note that when
taken by themselves, some parts of the essay might by themselves be of higher or lower quality,
the score the essay received is the overall score for the essay taken as a whole).
Grading Rubric
Score
50
55
60
65
70
75
Description
Essay identifies subject area and makes some attempt at answering
the question.
Essay spots at least one major issue but is mostly conclusory.
Essay spots several main issues and attempts to answer the
question.
Essay weaves some of the facts in with the main issues, but falls
short of identifying all major issues or misses some important facts.
Essay sees almost all major issues and does an adequate job of
weaving in important facts.
Essay is generally well-written in addition to identifying all major
issues and weaving in facts.
(2) Issue-Spotting: Next, compare the essay to the model answer, to make certain that it
spotted all of the issues that the essay needed to address. For any issue that the essay did not
spot, go back to the essay question and identify the part or parts of the facts and/or the call of
the question that made that issue discussable. If after doing this you are not certain why a
particular issue would be discussable (or why a particular issue would not be discussable),
please feel free to e-mail me.
While issue-spotting is critical to an essay having the right focus, issue-spotting alone is...