Teaching In The Margins:
Commenting On Student Writing

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Depending on your goals as you evaluate papers, you'll want to consider whether to assign a "holistic score" to a paper or to analyze specific elements of students writing to give more detailed response.

In brief, holistic scoring gives students a single, overall assessment score for the paper as a whole. Analytic scoring provides students with at least a rating score for each criterion, though often the rubric for analytic scoring offers teachers enough room to provide some feedback on each criterion.

• Holistic Scoring in More Detail
• CSU Composition Exam Grading Guide
• Analytic Scoring in More Detail
• Sample With No Individual Comment
• Sample With Individual Comment
• Critiquing a Sample Rubric