{"id":1010,"date":"2015-06-12T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:00:20","slug":"marking-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2015\/06\/12\/marking-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking &#8230; and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1011\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/marking.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"marking\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Ah! &#8211; or Aagh! &#8211; that time of the year again &#8230; marking and external examining (why, I wonder??): looking at the results of a year&#8217;s hard work by both students and staff and how that translates into written work. We are often asked, &#8220;How do I get a first class grade?&#8221; Here are some obvious answers:<\/p>\n<p>1. Get the basics right &#8211; a first class piece of work should at least be well-written, using sentences, punctuating and spelling correctly. I cannot see a first class essay as one that has incomplete sentences, is littered with basic grammatical errors, etc. Similarly, referencing &#8211; footnotes and bibliographies &#8211; should be in the right format. By level 6 (year 3) there really is no excuse for getting these basics wrong.<\/p>\n<p>2. READ! your bibliography will reflect the amount you have read and the range &#8211; you have to engage with historians and their arguments (historiography). This means using more than general survey texts; monographs and journal articles are a must.<\/p>\n<p>3. And finally &#8211; having done all the reading, you cannot just list or outline the views of other historians; a good answer is going to have an argument, a conclusion, and hopefully a point of view coming down on one side or the other, answering the question set &#8211; or in a dissertation, the questions posed by the writer in their introduction.<\/p>\n<p>When a student manages this, the results are often really a pleasure to read &#8211; they show understanding, engagement, and enthusiasm. I hope your work falls into this category &#8211; but if not, keep working at it, and remember &#8211; READ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah! &#8211; or Aagh! &#8211; that time of the year again &#8230; marking and external examining (why, I wonder??): looking at the results of a year&#8217;s hard work by both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[690,766],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-students","tag-uog"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}