PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Apa Style
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Quality of draft (/2) and quality of final (/4: do they address the question, do they argue powerfully and clearly? (persuasive points, as opposed to opinions, do they argue efficiently? (word limit: approx. Perfect marks reflect a very high standard and should be awarded sparingly: the draft should not be marked any less rigorously than the final. Unless the quality of the work actually decreased in the final compared to draft, then the mark for the final should not be lower than 2x the mark for the draft: set deductions: Word limit: 0. 5 off final draft if significantly over the word limit. Apa: 0. 25 off final draft if they did not use apa style citations. Make note of these deductions in your comments. If there is no room to take the marks off the final draft, take them off a different category, and make note of this: students were instructed to use primary sources (journal articles) for their research.
